Driven from police work by the cold realities of the job-getting shot can do that-Sophia Burgess finds her place in nursing. She brought with her the qualities that made her a good cop-fierce independence, inquiring mind, and edgy personality. Then the victim comes to her. Sophia's patient dies, but not from natural causes. She uses her clinical acumen as a nurse, her deductive skills as a former cop, and her police detective ex-fiancee to find the killer."