Really, I usually like Tess Gerritsen, but this was just awful. I finished it (not a fan of starting books and not finishing – seeing as this one was only like 250 pages I figured I could hack through it – plus the internets was down at work and I had nothing else with me CRY CRY CRY).
I was dragged into one of those ludicrous novels where everything is about the heat of the moment, the desire burning all over their bodies, the lingering gazes, the mind running more rampant than a hormonal teenager and electrifying touches and blah blah blah. I had a sour taste in my mouth over the romance aspect that presented itself insanely early, but I was certain it couldn’t be the worst kind or anything. I even (for the briefest of moments) thought that this could totally have been a book that Natasha would enjoy (you know, romance and the medical side – her cup of tea). Why? Just why? Right, bear in mind, the cover looked like it could present a decent medical thriller. Is Kate right? Is she being framed? Was there a misunderstanding? Did she kill Ellen on the table, even if just by accident? Will David take her through the wringer, crushing her just like any other doctor? What will happen between the two? Will they start thinking a little more straight if they are away from each other for a while? David and Kate, however, are tiptoeing and dancing around each other, complete opposites but completely taken with each other. The dead nurse seems to have a connection to another murder, and suddenly a murder seems like a theory for the OR, and not necessarily malpractice. Kate receives some strange calls about Ellen’s death, and when searching for answers discovers another corpse, another nurse. However, things soon start to happen that make him wonder if there is maybe not more to her story, that maybe there are sides she does not know. David, on the other hand, has made it his life’s mission to sue and crush doctors at every available opportunity, and it seems that Kate is no exception. The two are opposites from the very off, though she is immensely attracted to him from the off. Kate approaches the O’Brien family lawyer, David Ransom, intent on making him hear her out, to hear the truth, that she did not make a mistake, that someone else did. She knows for a fact that there was nothing wrong with Ellen’s EKG, and that she certainly did not have a stroke before surgery. Her life as she knows it is crumbling, and she is desperate to get it straightened out. Once an investigation is launched, Kate is soon served with papers suing for malpractice when evidence shows that Kate misread the EKG and killed Ellen on the table. Part of the staff that performs surgery on Ellen O’Brien, a close friend and fellow nurse, something goes wrong in the operating room and Ellen dies on the table. She loves her life, albeit a little lonely.
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