Cook, Robin

Taking a year off from her medical studies and leaving New York City, Pia Grazdani accepts a job at Nanobots, a nanotechnology institute, where she is quickly warned not to investigate the other work done at the facility and not to ask questions about their source of funding.

Dr. Daniel Lowell, inventor of a new cloning procedure, and Senator Ashley Butler, the conservative chairman of a subcommittee on health policy, make an unethical and underhanded bargain when Butler promises government support for Lowell's technology if the doctor will use it to treat Butler's Parkinson's disease.

New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton, under personal and professional stress after their love relationship goes sour, find their very lives in danger when they begin investigating the deaths of a series of seemingly healthy patients who suffered heart failure after undergoing routine surgeries.

Martin Philips, assistant chief of neuroradiology at Hobson University Medical Center in New York City, and his lover Denise Sanger, a resident, investigate a series of bizarre events that result in a nightmare for both of them.

Dr. John Stapleton, embittered by the deaths of his wife and daughters in a plane crash and the loss of his ophthalmology practice to AmeriCare, retrains for a career in forensic pathology where he uncovers a plot by the health care giant to kill off its more costly subscribers.

Graduate students and best friends Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner are shocked by what they find when they investigate the fate of the eggs they donated to a Boston fertility clinic shrouded in secrecy.

Dr. Cassandra Kingsley is investigating sudden surgical deaths at Boston Memorial Hospital and her husband, a top surgeon, seems headed for a breakdown. Cassi is admitted to the hospital for an eye operation and she becomes the "Godplayer's" next target.