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Paging the Don: A Safehouse Medical Romantic Suspense
Paperback
Series: Pulse & Power, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 5 2025
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He commands a city. She commands an OR. One midnight page makes them a team-and a target.
At 1:57 a.m., pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Sasha Ortiz is scrubbed in when the consent name flashes: Nico LaRosa. His little girl's valve is failing. Sasha gives the hard truth; he signs without hesitation. The surgery holds. The child lives.
Then the fallout begins-an impostor in scrubs, a bouquet wired with a pinhole camera, tick, tock notes-and hospital politics eager to erase the woman who made the call. Nico protects his world by force of will; protecting the surgeon who saved his daughter becomes personal. He offers coordination, not control-security, a safehouse, and a door he promises to leave unlocked.
With a licensing fight looming and the threats getting smarter, Sasha and Nico choose outcomes over optics and paper over muscle, building a case before the clock runs out. The closer they work, the steadier their pulse together-something neither of them planned, and both of them might risk everything to keep.
Tropes & Vibes
Single-dad protector hero - Brilliant surgeon heroine - Age gap
Forced proximity / safehouse - Hospital politics - Found-family nurses
Text-message chemistry - Coordinate, not control
Content notes: On-page medical scenarios; stalking/surveillance; tense situations; romantic/sexual tension (closed-door / fade-to-black vibe).
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