Award-winning Mississippi author and physician Darden North returns with Rooftop, the third installment in his Diana Bratton series of medical thrillers. Published by WordCrafts Press, the novel brings readers back into the complex world of Dr. Diana Bratton, a talented surgeon whose calm, professional surface masks a life often upended by violence, secrets, and moral compromise.
In Rooftop, Diana’s life is once again disrupted when a new patient, Roy Garnett, walks into her clinic with a disturbing story. His nephew, struggling with untreated mental illness, accuses him of killing his own sister. Roy insists he’s innocent, but as Diana tries to determine the truth, she finds herself caught in a swirl of suspicion, lies, and a growing body count.
Elsewhere in town, Voncelle Wallace is trying to move forward after a failed medical career. She lands a job at the Cummins-Bratton Surgical Center, where she hopes to leave the past behind. Her husband, Chuck Wallace, is a real estate negotiator involved in a major acquisition deal with the Belmont Clinic—a flashy, high-end medical practice with a questionable ethical compass. When a rooftop sniper opens fire and halts the deal, the incident sets off a cascade of fallout that pulls everyone deeper into danger.
Diana wants nothing to do with the Belmonts, but she’s quickly drawn in. The threads between her patient, the Belmont family, and the sniper begin to tighten, placing her and those around her in real jeopardy…