Heartbeats & Hazardous Shifts

At Mercy General Hospital, the margin between life and death is measured in seconds.

When ruthless corporate cost-cutting pushes staffing to dangerous extremes, 4-West Nurse Manager Girlie Santiago refuses to back down. Standing beside her is Emergency Department Manager Adam Sanders—her trusted partner through countless crises…and the man she has secretly loved for eight years.

But an unsafe staffing crisis soon turns lethal. As a Level One mass-casualty event overwhelms the ER, critical networks go dark and suspicious medication discrepancies threaten patients across the hospital. Forced into high-stakes analog downtime, Girlie and Adam uncover a calculated campaign of vendor manipulation and sabotage designed to sacrifice bedside care for profit.

With familiar faces from Stat, Dietitian joining the chaos—and the hilarious, fiercely loyal Filipino Mafia keeping everyone fed, grounded, and entertained—Heartbeats & Hazardous Shifts delivers danger, heart, and plenty of hospital-family fun.

Girlie and Adam must fight for every patient, every nurse, and the future of Mercy General…while finally confronting the feelings they can no longer hide.

And keep watch—Book Three is coming.