The Kill Radius

Noor Hadid doesn’t do soft. She does tourniquets, perimeters, and the doors nobody else at Greywater Security wants to go through first. She carries her medic’s bag everywhere, and a secret in its lid: an Army casualty card from Afghanistan, filled out in her own hand, for a little girl the official report says was never there. Noor signed that report. She has been paying for the signature for fifteen years.

Dr. Jonah Bryce smiles at everyone. Night nurses, drunks, the kid with the broken wrist, the woman who just turned him face-first into a brick wall in a White Center parking lot. Three nights ago a thirteen-year-old girl in diabetic crisis grabbed his wrist in his small-town ER and told him her name. Then the man who brought her in walked her out the door. The police say she’s with family. Her mother says so too. Jonah wrote the girl’s name on his hand so he wouldn’t forget it, and he hasn’t let it wash off.

The girl is being held in the Cascade foothills, under a white mountain, on land that has been hiding things since before she was born. The man holding her is the officer who handed Noor the pen in 2012. He knows exactly what she signed. He’s counting on her to do it again.

Grumpy/sunshine. Combat medic heroine. ER doctor hero. Two medics, one patient. Found family.

The Kill Radius is Book 3 of The Greywater Files, a connected series of standalone romantic suspense novels set in the rain and grey water of the Pacific Northwest. Complete story, happy ending.