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The night shift at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center never slows down. Gunshot wounds, cardiac arrests, impossible choices and impossible losses arrive through the emergency department doors hour after hour, demanding everything from the people who work there.
Among them is twenty-five-year-old nurse practitioner Lilly Christian.
Calm where others panic. Gentle where others grow hardened. Brilliant enough to earn the quiet respect of every physician around her, Lilly appears to be exactly what every emergency department hopes for.
What no one knows is that before Pittsburgh, she served as an Army nurse in Iraq.
While her colleagues see only a compassionate young clinician, Lilly carries years of battlefield medicine, memories she can never forget, and a past she has no desire to discuss. When violence erupts inside the emergency department, instincts forged long before civilian life return in an instant, forcing those around her to realize there is far more behind her quiet smile than they ever imagined.
As relentless shifts blur into one another, friendships deepen, families fracture, and old wounds quietly resurface, Lilly must discover whether a person can truly leave war behind-or whether some parts of it simply learn to wear a different uniform.
In a place where every second can mean life or death, healing isn't only for the patients.
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PN: I've realised in the third chapter that I wrote Abbott instead of Abbot. But I was too lazy to change it afterwards and to stay consistent I'll keep that up. Hate me if you must.