The New England Journal of Medicine would sell more magazines with Doctor Caroline O'Reilly's picture on the cover. She's a rising star in trauma surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. At five-foot-ten with red hair and green eyes she can look a man in the eye and know that he'll be looking back. Still single at 36, but recently in love, she's got her personal life and career in balance, until one day a special patient dies.

This one man's death calls all her skill and judgment into question. Searching for answers she discovers a criminal conspiracy entwining the science and business of biotechnology. Thousands of patients and millions of dollars are at stake. Can she unravel the mystery in time?