HARVEST PB A FORMAT – TESS GERRITSEN

Dr Abby DiMatteo – a second-year surgical student in Boston Bayside s elite cardiac team – is about to make a decision that will jeopardize her career. A car-crash victim s healthy heart is ready to be harvested, having been cross-matched to a private patient, forty-six year-old Nina Voss. Instead Abby makes sure the transplant goes to a dying seventeen-year-old boy who is also a perfect match. The repercussions leave her plagued with self-doubt. Suddenly a new heart appears, and the transplant is completed – but Abby makes a terrible discovery. The new heart has not come through the right channels. Defying the hospital s demands for silence, Abby begins her own investigation that reveals an intricate and murderous chain of deceptions …