Fever Ward Confessions
She survived the shootout. The fever made her remember everything.
- Romance
- Literary Fiction
Deanna Williams was a cop until a shootout killed her partner and destroyed her shoulder. Eighteen months later, she is still not okay. A routine surgery to remove scar tissue goes wrong when a post-op fever spikes to 104 and Deanna's grip on reality shatters. She attacks the nurses trying to help her, convinced she is back in that alley with her partner bleeding out. By the time the restraints go on, no one on the floor wants to enter her room. Cassie Evans hears the commotion from the nurses' station and walks in anyway. She speaks to Deanna the way she speaks to her pottery clay: steady, patient, without flinching. And something in that quiet voice cuts through the fever dream long enough for Deanna to let go. What starts as crisis intervention becomes something neither woman expected. Deanna does not know how to need anyone. Cassie has spent years learning that caring for wounded people can become a way of disappearing into them. As the fever breaks and the truth about the shootout surfaces—along with a deputy chief who wants it buried—they have to figure out whether what is growing between them is real or just the aftershock of proximity, trauma, and grief. Fever Ward Confessions is a slow-burn contemporary romance about the terrifying, tender work of letting someone see you whole.
