Within hours of learning of his best friend's suicide, Dr. Robert St. John, an emergency room physician at New Orleans Hospital, finds himself caught up in a whole new world of international adventure and exciting breakthroughs. Beautiful hospital administrator Ann Finn puts him on a roller-coaster that he can't stop...and he's not even sure he wants to. But why are so many unexplained deaths occurring in New Orleans Hospital? And why did Dr. Dave Wyatt kill himself? By the time Robert begins to suspect the truth, his life is in grave danger.