Night Shift at Mercy Hospital
A Near-Future Police Procedural

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Rain-slick New Chicago. A hospital where algorithms are supposed to catch death before it happens. But on the night shift at Mercy General, healthy patients are flatlining with clean toxicology screens and perfect vital signs on the monitors—right up until the moment they die.

Detective Noah Vance finds a scratched diagnostic port on an infusion pump and a twenty-year-old cold case file accessed from the murder room itself. In 1999, Detective Arthur Cross hunted a killer who used analog jumpers to spoof bedside monitors while stopping hearts. Cross took a bullet before he could testify. Now the same pattern has returned, upgraded for the Apex-7 era: a micro-shock delivered through a hacked pump, an artificial sine wave fed to the central console, and a ghost in the machine who knows the network better than its architects.

With a cyber-forensics contractor who refuses to be logged in the system and a captain who knows exactly what's buried in the hospital's basement, Vance has until morning to decide—is this a copycat, or has the original killer just woken up? In a building where the past is bolted beneath the future, the only thing more dangerous than a broken system is one that works exactly as designed.