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Looking for a brief escape, Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery visit a former classmate who serves as coroner in a small Adirondack town. A pest-control worker’s bizarre death, missing remains, and a cluster of dementia-like cases soon point to a terrifying bioweapon that could spread far beyond the mountains.

First-year surgical resident Michael “Mitt” Fuller arrives at New York’s historic Bellevue Hospital eager to continue his family’s medical legacy. When patients under his care begin dying unexpectedly and he is haunted by disturbing visions, Mitt is drawn to the abandoned psychiatric building next door and the dark history it hides.

With Jack Stapleton still recovering from a near-fatal case, Laurie Montgomery shoulders extra work at the medical examiner’s office and assigns a struggling resident to a suicide autopsy. When that same resident soon appears on her table, Laurie suspects a staged death tied to a crooked cancer-diagnostics company.

New York chief medical examiner Laurie Montgomery is devastated when her longtime friend, internist Sue Passero, dies suddenly in a hospital parking garage. She asks her husband Jack Stapleton to handle the autopsy, and his uneasy findings lead them into a dangerous hunt for a killer hiding inside the hospital.

During a pandemic-weary summer on Cape Cod, Emma Murphy is bitten by a mosquito and soon develops violent neurological symptoms. As hospital bills soar and insurers refuse coverage, her husband Brian fights both a deadly virus and a health-care system that seems determined to bankrupt his family.

Chief medical examiner Laurie Montgomery and abrasive but brilliant resident Aria Nichols autopsy a pregnant social worker whose death is written off as an overdose. Doubting that story, Aria turns to genetic genealogy databases to identify the unknown father and uncovers a killer who does not want to be found.

When a young woman with a transplanted heart collapses and dies on a New York subway, medical examiner Jack Stapleton suspects more than a random flu. His autopsy points toward gene-edited viruses and a global biotech plot that could turn a local tragedy into a worldwide catastrophe.

At Boston Memorial Hospital, new chief surgery resident Noah Rothauser must investigate a series of operating-room deaths tied to the newest high-tech suites. Suspicion falls on a star surgeon and a glamorous anesthesiologist with multiple online personas, forcing Noah to decide whom to trust before more patients die.

Fourth-year medical student Lynn Peirce is shattered when her healthy boyfriend lapses into a vegetative state after simple knee surgery. Teaming up with classmate Michael Pender, she uncovers a network of comatose patients and a corporate partnership that treats human beings as test subjects for an experimental drug.

Los Angeles radiology resident George Wilson is engaged to a fellow doctor and intrigued by a new smartphone app called iDoc that promises round-the-clock medical care. After his fiancée and several patients enrolled in the pilot program die unexpectedly, he suspects the digital doctor may be making lethal choices.

Still reeling from events in New York, Pia Grazdani takes a research job at Nano, a secretive nanotechnology institute in the Colorado Rockies. The campus bristles with security and corporate money, and when she stumbles on a colleague in apparent cardiac arrest, she realizes human trials may already be underway.

Brilliant but guarded medical student Pia Grazdani works with a renowned geneticist on growing replacement organs from stem cells. When tragedy strikes their lab and powerful investors move quickly to contain the fallout, Pia and classmate George Wilson investigate a life-insurance scheme that may profit from patients’ deaths.

Returning from maternity leave, New York medical examiner Laurie Montgomery is assigned what looks like a routine death on the subway. Her suspicions of poisoning draw Jack Stapleton into a case that links a dead researcher, stem-cell start-ups, organized crime, and a kidnapping that hits painfully close to home.

When a college friend in Rome asks for help examining a mysterious tomb, Jack Stapleton brings modern imaging into the heart of the Vatican. The discovery inside sparks a clash between archaeology, faith, and medicine, even as Laurie faces a complicated pregnancy back in New York.

UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez learns from a news report that her grandmother has died after routine surgery in New Delhi. Traveling to India for answers, she teams up with Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery to investigate a booming medical tourism industry with a deadly dark side.

Physician-entrepreneur Angela Dawson has built a chain of boutique surgical hospitals and is ready to take her company public. When drug-resistant staph infections suddenly sweep through her facilities, Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery must determine whether this is bad luck, bad hygiene, or deliberate sabotage.

Boston concierge doctor Craig Bowman is stunned when a hypochondriac patient’s death lands him in a high-profile malpractice trial. His estranged brother-in-law, medical examiner Jack Stapleton, agrees to help, but an exhumation and fresh autopsy expose a cover-up that puts careers and lives at risk.

Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery notice an unsettling pattern of healthy patients dying after routine operations at New York’s top hospitals. Their probe reveals that subtle genetic “markers” and aggressive insurance practices may be turning certain people into quiet, profitable losses.

Senator Ashley Butler publicly fights to ban new cloning technology while privately hiding his Parkinson’s disease. He strikes a secret deal with scientist Daniel Lowell for an untested stem-cell procedure, pulling them both into a swirl of political hypocrisy, medical risk, and terrifying neurological side effects.

During an undersea drilling project, a research submersible vanishes near an Atlantic seamount and its crew awakens in a vast, hidden civilization deep beneath the ocean. Their hosts claim to represent humanity’s true future, forcing the surface visitors to choose between comfort, captivity, and escape.

Disillusioned Russian émigré Yuri Davydov drives a cab in New York by day and plots revenge by night, drawing on his past in a Soviet bioweapons lab. When Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery link unexplained deaths to anthrax, they must stop a homegrown bioterror attack in time.

Graduate students Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner sell their eggs to an upscale infertility clinic to fund their research dreams. Years later, curiosity about what became of those eggs draws them into the clinic’s guarded corridors, where they uncover secret stem-cell experiments and dangerous cloning ambitions.

Surgeon Kim Reggis takes his young daughter out for a celebratory fast-food meal, only to watch her become desperately ill from E. coli poisoning. As he battles indifferent regulators and powerful meat interests, he races to expose the contamination before more families are destroyed.

When small, mysterious stones fall from the sky and people who touch them come down with a strange flu, no one suspects the illness is only the beginning. A hidden virus awakens in humanity, turning victims into something not quite human while a handful of survivors fight back.

A mobster’s body disappears from a New York morgue, and pathologists Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery are left with only questions. Their search leads to a remote African facility where genetically altered primates are being bred for organ transplants, and the science has already slipped its leash.

After losing his family and practice, ophthalmologist turned pathologist Jack Stapleton starts over at New York’s morgue. A string of lethal infections in hospitals linked to the same health-care conglomerate draws him into a conspiracy where bioterror, managed care, and corporate greed collide.

Neuroscientist Edward Armstrong discovers a mold in his girlfriend’s historic Salem house that may explain the town’s witch hysteria and also function as a powerful psychoactive drug. When he and his team test it on themselves and race to commercialize it, the line between research and madness blurs.

Doctors Angela and David Wilson move their family to a Vermont town that seems like a medical paradise, with steady jobs and a safe community. Instead they find unexplained patient deaths, a predatory HMO, and a hospital culture where cutting costs may be worth killing for.

Harvard medical student Sean Murphy jumps at a research rotation at a Florida cancer center boasting miraculous cures. Once inside, he and nurse Janet Reardon realize the clinic’s perfect record hides experimental treatments, buried bodies, and a business model that views patients as expendable assets.

Epidemiologist Marissa Blumenthal is devastated to learn she is infertile and turns to an elite in vitro clinic for help. When she notices eerily similar problems among other patients, her medical training pushes her to investigate a fertility industry hiding shocking practices behind smiling brochures.

New York forensic pathologist Laurie Montgomery is troubled by a spike in drug overdose victims who seem unlikely users. As she battles office politics and mob-linked homicides, she uncovers a grisly scheme in which young professionals are dying so their organs can quietly be harvested.

Anesthesiologist Jeffrey Rhodes is blamed when a healthy woman dies under his care and is quickly ruined by a malpractice verdict. Convinced he was framed, he goes on the run to uncover who sabotaged his work and why someone is turning surgical mishaps into big business.

Desperate for another child, biomolecular researcher Victor Frank secretly alters an embryo to create a genetically enhanced son. At first the boy seems like a prodigy, but as he grows older Victor realizes his experiment has produced something brilliant, cold, and increasingly dangerous.

Boston physician Jason Howard works for a health plan under pressure to cut costs when a disturbing pattern of elderly patients dying suddenly begins to emerge. His search for answers exposes a ruthless scheme that treats the frail and aging as expendable burdens on the system.

CDC epidemiologist Marissa Blumenthal is sent to investigate a deadly virus killing doctors and patients in a Los Angeles clinic. As similar outbreaks erupt across the country, she uncovers evidence that the epidemic may be engineered rather than random and that powerful interests want it hidden.

Medical student Adam Schonberg’s life derails when his wife’s pregnancy forces him to leave school and work for a powerful drug company. He soon suspects that a luxury fertility clinic linked to his employer is quietly reshaping doctors’ minds and exploiting patients in the name of profit.

Working alongside her talented cardiac-surgeon husband at Boston Memorial seems like a dream for Dr. Cassandra Kingsley, until cardiac patients start dying in unusual numbers. As she and a colleague dig into the deaths, they uncover a deadly mix of hospital politics, drugs, and surgical arrogance.

Cancer researcher Charles Martel is devastated when his twelve-year-old daughter develops aggressive leukemia. As he traces her illness to industrial pollution in their New England town, he finds himself fighting corporate power, medical bureaucracy, and the clock to save her life.

Egyptologist Erica Baron travels to Cairo dreaming of temples and tombs, then stumbles onto a priceless statue and a trail of bodies. Drawn into smuggling, murder, and ancient curses, she must navigate modern corruption as carefully as any burial chamber.

When a healthy young woman dies during minor surgery and her brain quietly disappears, neuroradiologist Martin Philips starts asking questions. His investigation uncovers a secret program that hardwires stolen brains to computers, blurring the line between medical research and human experimentation.

Third-year medical student Susan Wheeler notices an alarming cluster of patients who slip into unexplained comas after routine surgery. Her search for the cause leads from Boston Memorial’s operating rooms to a chilling facility where brain-dead patients are being used as an illicit source of organs.

A young doctor named Peters begins his internship exhausted, unsure, and suddenly responsible for life-and-death decisions. As sleepless nights, difficult surgeries, and impossible demands pile up, he discovers how training can shape a physician and quietly dismantle a person.