It was supposed to be a place of healing-a place where doctors and nurses dedicated their lives to helping the sick and injured. Nobody wants to imagine a massacre at a hospital. So at Newton Memorial, staff and patients are left frightened and stunned after the brutal shooting death of Dr. John Connor and an attending nurse. And when Dr. Jack Norris is asked by police to help with the investigation, he will stop at nothing to figure out how a peaceful patient was suddenly turned into the violent killer that took his best friend's life. As an assistant under Dr. Ian Rupert, the hospital's research director, Dr. Connor could have had access to some secret information about groundbreaking drugs and procedures-knowledge possibly even worth killing or dying for. Could the patient that gunned down the doctor have known more than he let on? In this captivating medical mystery, loyalties are tested and new frontiers of medical science are explored as hidden intentions come to light-and the truth behind a tragic killing is finally exposed.