Patricia Gussin Books in Order

During Detroit’s 1967 riots, medical student Laura Nelson makes a split-second decision that leaves someone dead. Concealing her role draws her into a dangerous struggle with a perceptive detective, unsettling incidents, and threats to her freedom and peace of mind.

Surgeon Laura Nelson discovers that her television-anchor husband is having an affair with his co-anchor. When the other woman is murdered and Laura becomes the suspect, she must defend her freedom while betrayal and secrets threaten her family.

Billionaire Paul Parnell leaves his six children an unusual inheritance challenge: demonstrate moral values and contribute to society to receive their share of his fortune. His attempt to repair a fractured family instead exposes ambitions and conflicts that could divide it further.

Two of Katie and Scott Monroe’s nine-year-old triplets disappear during a visit to a movie theater. As the parents confront the possibility of a targeted kidnapping, their remaining daughter struggles with guilt, and the family fights to preserve hope.

Robert and Patricia Gussin recount their transition from careers in science and medicine to writing, publishing, and winemaking. Their alternating personal accounts explore retirement, reinvention, and the decisions involved in pursuing new interests and opportunities later in life.

A resistant bacterial outbreak kills surgical patients at Tampa City Hospital and threatens Dr. Laura Nelson’s daughter. Laura enlists a CDC colleague as a white supremacist plot develops in Atlanta, bringing a medical emergency and a planned attack dangerously together.

An injury ends Laura Nelson’s surgical career, leading her into pharmaceutical research. Her effort to secure approval for a new drug collides with an FDA employee’s obsession and pressure on its Iraqi discoverer to return to Saddam Hussein’s bioweapons program.

Philadelphia surgeons Nicole Nelson and Ahmed Masud face strains from prejudice, malpractice claims, and Ahmed’s powerful Egyptian family. As unrest threatens the family’s fortune in Cairo, demands that Ahmed return with their young son place conflicting loyalties at the center of their marriage.