Astute and intelligent.
As a competent, no-nonsense pediatrician, Dr. Erica Rosen has always taken her vow to do no harm quite seriously. This uncompromising approach, to protect the vulnerable children in her care, sometimes puts her at odds with caregiving families and fellow medical professionals. When a young epileptic patient arrives at the ER, Dr. Rosen thoroughly examines the ailing little girl, verifying her medical history, lab work and medication usage. With no other logical conclusion in sight, the doctor turns the girl’s mother over to the police to investigate willful abuse, believing the child’s anti-seizure medication has been purposefully withheld. Usually able to trust her sure-footed instincts, Erica is soon proven wrong when a few more children need medical treatment from a strange assortment of unlikely problems. The cases all seem to be related, but only in their odd timing and sudden severity. Erica will need to put her wits to the test if she hopes to find the strange connection that links these cases because proper procedures and the law don’t seem to be on her side. As she gets closer to the truth, Dr. Rosen will uncover a chilling truth that will leave her unsure of who to trust and without many options.
From the intensity of the pediatric ICU to the unimagined dangers she finds while investigating a string of improbable illnesses, Erica’s compelling story continues without letup in Unforeseen, the third in the series. Things began with some shady experiments in China that left lingering effects on unwitting kids, but now the experiments are on her turf. A tidy synopsis of Erica’s earlier capers allows readers to dive right into a fresh new plot that is terrifying in its plausibility and shocking in its dimension. Appropriate for a physician, the narrative voice rings out with a distinctively cool and clinical tone, lending itself well to Erica’s pragmatic, problem-solving personality. While the doctor may be stiff and formal, her family members each possess unique qualities and distinct temperaments, adding appropriate levity and a generous portion of drama to the narrative. It is this delicate balance between a detailed, technical suspense novel and a family-first story of love and sacrifice that makes the Erica Rosen MD Trilogy shine. Astute and intelligent, as any jaw-dropping medical thriller should be, Unforeseen is a deceit-filled novel laced with action and intensity that will have you reexamining your personal ethics, resetting your passwords, carefully checking all your pockets and hugging your kids the next time you get a chance!
