Critical

SHE'S ONLY A SCREAM AWAY FROM HELP…A WHISPER AWAY FROM DEATH

Gravely ill with gram negative septicemia, an insidious form of blood poisoning, Jennifer Bartlett-Stafford, daughter of Sprague General Hospital's most influential benefactor, lies at the brink of death. Her life—and the hospital's survival—is at the heart of a fever-pitched struggle of pride and power, desire and dollars.

Dr. Michael Graham is desperate to save the life of his childhood sweetheart—and is risking his promising surgical career. Dr. Donald Fales sees his long-awaited chance to destroy Graham, but to save his lucrative ties to the patient's family he must keep her alive—or send her somewhere else to die. Jackie O'Neill, the ICU's new head nurse, is battling a tide of life-and-death crises—and a feud rank with medical mistakes and malignant lies. Now, the hospital reels under the shock of a vicious power play, a deadly gamble that's about to take its toll…