Most people find it hard to say no to a good cause—even if it looks just a little too good to be true.

When a nurse goes missing during a chaotic night shift in Ginny Forbes’ Intensive Care Unit, no one notices until her body is discovered tucked inside the staff break room. Suddenly, every colleague on duty is a suspect. To clear her own name, Ginny reluctantly steps forward to help Detective Tran untangle a Gordian knot of conflicting evidence and hospital politics.

But the local tragedy quickly spirals. A closer look reveals the victim was leading a double life embedded in a hotly contested piece of legislation moving through the Texas State Legislature. As passionate advocacy turns to fanaticism and pipe bombs explode on the capitol grounds, Ginny is swept into a high-stakes DEA task force, as bait to draw out a deadly narcotics syndicate. Saddled with a gallóglaigh—a traditional Scottish mercenary—and caught in an unexpected romantic triangle, Ginny must navigate a world where doing good is never simple, and applying principles without compassion is fatal.

A CozyPlus mystery in the tradition of Josephine Tey, Dorothy Sayers, and Ellis Peters, blending authentic medical precision with a distinctive Scottish-Texas diaspora voice.