Juliet Vexley
Critical Condition
From rising author Juliet Velxley comes a tense, deeply human medical drama that explores what happens when a lifetime of experience collides with bureaucracy, bias, and the brutal arithmetic of survival.
Dr. Althea Brooks has spent nearly three decades in the emergency room at County General, long enough to know the rhythm of chaos by heart. She knows which chest pains are real, which silences are dangerous, and how to make life-or-death decisions in the space between one breath and the next. Her hands have steadied thousands of strangers. Her judgment has saved more lives than anyone can count.
But experience doesn’t protect you from politics.…