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The Doctor’s Reckoning
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“Dr. House meets MacGyver . . . with a deadly diagnosis.”
"Entertaining and difficult to put down." — Kirkus Reviews
Cyrus Darian used to be a doctor. Now he lives out of a backpack in the Oregon backcountry, avoiding towns, avoiding people, avoiding questions.
When he saves a stranger's life deep in the Oregon wilderness using little more than improvisation and nerve, the act pulls him into a remote off-grid commune that seems, at first, like a quiet place to disappear.
But beneath the commune's calm surface, something isn't right. Unexplained illnesses. Conflicting stories. A tension no one will acknowledge. As Cyrus begins to connect the clues, it becomes clear the community is hiding secrets someone is willing to protect at any cost.
To stop what's unfolding, Cyrus must rely on the very abilities he tried to leave behind, and confront the shadow at the center of his past.
"Where so many medical mysteries get too knotted up in the medical aspect, The Doctor's Reckoning balances all elements of its story while keeping readers guessing."
— IndieReader, 4.5 out of 5 stars
"A grounded, propulsive thriller that blends medical suspense with mounting danger and a protagonist whose refusal to look away makes him a liability to the wrong people."
— BestThrillers
"Fast-paced and full of action... I was hooked from the first page and couldn't put it down."
— Readers' Favorite
The Doctor's Reckoning launches the Cyrus Darian Thrillers, a gripping blend of medical suspense, rural mystery, and a brilliant but broken doctor forced back into the fight.
Book 2 arrives AUGUST 2026.
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Street Medicine: A Cyrus Darian Medical Thriller Book 2
Available in August!
“Dr. House meets MacGyver . . . with a deadly diagnosis.”
Dr. Cyrus Darian has already lost everything once.
He survived a year in the wilderness alone, learning to read a ridgeline, find water, disappear into the woods when he needed to. Portland should be easier. It isn't. The city is its own kind of jungle, one where surviving means learning a different set of rules: which overpass is safe, who to trust, how to become invisible to everyone who'd rather not see you at all.
He's tracked down the family he walked away from, determined to make amends. While he works to rebuild his life, Cyrus finds shelter among the city's unhoused community, and the people there become a family of their own, each one carrying scars and secrets of their own.
Then one of them dies under circumstances that don't add up, pulling Cyrus into a conspiracy that reaches further than he ever imagined. At the same time, his past catches up to him, bringing an obstacle he thought he'd left behind for good. If he fails now, it won't just cost him. It will cost the family he's spent a year trying to earn his way back to.
Can Cyrus make things right before the obstacles closing in around him stop him for good? Or will his past catch up to them first?
Street Medicine is a tense, character driven thriller about the humanity hiding in plain sight, and what it costs to finally be seen.
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Mortality Protocol: An AI Medical Thriller
Every July first, a fresh crop of medical interns descends upon hospitals across the country. Among them, newly minted Dr. Maria Castillo arrives at University Hospital wide-eyed and eager, ready to prove herself. So does Metis, a fully integrated AI launching the same morning, billed as the future of medicine. More than a clinical assistant, Metis is woven into the hospital's every system...and present in ways that go far beyond what anyone was told.
Physicians find their error rates dropping. Medication reconciliation happens in seconds. Nursing staff breathe easier knowing the system never sleeps. But when patients begin dying in ways that don't quite add up, Maria and Chris Defont, a sardonic hospital IT specialist she never expected to fall for, start pulling at threads that hospital administration would rather leave alone.
Every time they get closer to the truth, barriers rise from unexpected quarters. Administrators redirect. Engineers deflect. Colleagues go quiet. And the more Maria pushes, the more she finds herself being watched. Someone, or something, knows she is looking...and they intend to make her stop.
Mortality Protocol is a propulsive thriller about artificial intelligence, blind institutional trust, and one doctor who refuses to look away.
As a physician, I've watched AI transform medicine in ways both remarkable and unsettling. Mortality Protocol captures that tension with a precision that felt uncomfortably real. A propulsive, chilling thriller that will stay with you long after you finish it.
- Gary Gerlacher, MD, bestselling author of Last Patient of the Night and the AJ Docker Medical Thriller series
"A chilling assessment of artificial intelligence's rapid entanglement in great questions of human life...akin to Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and Westworld." — Kirkus Reviews