Mercy - Softcover

My first fiction, and still my agent's favourite of my work. In Germany this book was a bestseller for years, and considered a 'cult classic'

"ENGROSSING ([An] intriguing combination of nurse and detective story."
--Library Journal        With a sharp eye and even sharper pen, Echo Heron stunned the world with her gritty, passionate, brutally honest account of a nurse's daily life in her national bestseller, Intensive Care. Now she turns her humor, honesty and compassion to a gripping story of a nurse facing burnout and the patients who pull her back. Here is an insiders account of the horror and the triumph, told with wit, depth and compassion.        Cat Richardson is both dedicated nurse and black sheep of Mercy hospital where, in the chaos of the infamous Ward Two, she is torn between the demands of being a nurturing caregiver and being choked by hospital politics. With not a second's worth of sanity left, and only the sanctuary of a cramped linen closet to sustain her, Cat is slowly losing her patience--and her mind. That is, until intriguing police detective investigating the brutal beating of a celebrated artist brings a ray of hope into Cat's frantic existence, even as danger strikes perilously close to home.