9798250260879 - THE NIGHT NURSE de BITTNER, JASON RUSSELL (4 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. At Westmoore Medical Center, the night shift runs like clockwork-quiet halls, dimmed lights, and the steady pulse of machines keeping fragile lives tethered to morning. Abagail Turner is grateful to be there. Newly transferred and on a probationary period, she needs this job to stick, and she's determined to prove she belongs at one of the most respected hospitals in the region. Then she meets her assigned mentor. Martha Reynolds is everything Westmoore celebrates-calm under stress, endlessly competent, and almost unnervingly composed. Other nurses admire her. Families praise her. Supervisors trust her without hesitation. And when patients die. it happens peacefully. Too peacefully. It starts as a faint unease Abagail can't explain: a pattern in the timing, a look exchanged between staff in the hallway, a comment overheard during handoff that stops the moment she steps closer. After a few shifts, Abagail notices the same detail in the background of the worst moments-Martha is always there when the monitors go still. Abagail tells herself it's coincidence. Martha is assigned to the hardest cases. Martha volunteers for extra hours. Martha is simply the kind of nurse hospitals rely on when things go wrong. Except the charts don't match the rooms. A medication record that's too clean. A timestamp that doesn't align with a witness's memory. An order that appears after the fact. A missing cosign. Tiny contradictions-individually dismissible, collectively impossible to ignore. Abagail starts checking charts when she shouldn't, comparing logs and shift assignments, building a private paper trail because she senses what Westmoore doesn't want said aloud: something is being managed-not just pain, not just panic, but outcomes. As Abagail pushes, Westmoore pushes back. A "friendly" reminder about policy. A quiet meeting framed as support. Colleagues who were willing to talk yesterday suddenly won't meet her eyes. The hospital's polished culture-the one that once felt like safety-begins to feel like containment. Through it all, Martha remains perfectly composed, offering guidance with a steady smile and speaking about dignity and comfort, her words careful, her presence reassuring. The longer Abagail watches her, the more she realizes the most frightening people aren't the ones who rage-they're the ones who never have to. Now Abagail is trapped between what she knows and what she can prove. If she's wrong, she could destroy her career. If she's right, she may be the only person standing between Westmoore's patients and someone who has turned compassion into a weapon-and the next name on the chart isn't just another case. THE NIGHT NURSE is a chilling thriller-horror of institutional secrets, medical menace, and the terrifying ease with which truth can be rewritten inside a system designed to protect itself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.