Farewell to Dreams

For readers of Tess Gerritsen, Douglas Preston, F Paul Wilson: Fatal Insomnia Book One In the chaos of the ER, functioning without sleep is a prized skill. But even Dr. Angela Rossi will admit that five months is far too long, especially when accompanied by other worrisome symptoms: night sweats, tremors, muscle spasms, fevers. Then a dead nun speaks to her while Angela is holding the nun s heart in her hand. Find the girl, the nun commands although no one else in the trauma room can hear, the words drilling directly into Angela s brain. Save the girl. Aided by a police detective fallen from grace, Angela searches the midnight catacombs beneath the city, facing down a ruthless gangleader and stumbling onto a serial killer s lair. Her desperate quest to save the girl leads her to the one thing she least expected to find: a last chance for love. As her symptoms escalate in bizarre and disturbing ways, Angie realizes exactly how serious her illness is. She might be dying, but she s finally choosing how to live "