The last thing plastic surgery resident Jackson Maebry wants at the end of along day in the operating room is a call to the ER. Once he gets there what hefinds ... » 

The last thing plastic surgery resident Jackson Maebry wants at the end of along day in the operating room is a call to the ER. Once he gets there what hefinds is worse than his most hellish imaginings a young woman beaten andburned almost beyond recognition a trauma case as terrible as any he has everseen. What Jacksons colleagues dont know is that the victim Allie isactually his lover.With Allie in a coma Jackson keeps their relationshipquiet and takes part in her reconstruction a complicated and grueling set ofprocedures that only the most skilled specialists can perform. But as he andthe other doctors struggle to put her back together the fractures in Jacksonsown life begin to break apart dramatically. When the San Francisco PoliceDepartments investigation of the attack leads to his door Jackson knows thetruth can no longer be suppressed.Ghost Image is an expertly plottedchillingly vivid and wholly absorbing mystery signaling the debut of anunforgettable new voice in the genre. Taking readers inside the operating roomand literally under the skin of its patients its a story that will appeal tothose fascinated by medicine and forensics. It is also a story like allclassic crime novels about guilt and innocence good and evil. But aboveall it is a story of love the kind of love that might prove deadly or thatmight just save your soul. «