They called him Jimmy Moron. He never forgot. James Edward Moron—pronounced mo-RON—spent his childhood in Tulsa being mocked for his name, his awkwardness, and the wild ideas that made him an easy target. The other kids grew up and moved on. James grew up keeping score. Years later, he returns to Tulsa as Dr. James Edward Moron: educated, respected, married, and powerful enough that nobody sees the wounded boy still living beneath the white coat. His wife, Negala, is confident, commanding, and fiercely protective. His closest friend, Allan Riley, is an intimidating former college football player whose future will become inseparable from James’s own. Then fate delivers one of James’s childhood tormentors directly into his emergency room. The man is critically injured. James saves his life. And when the patient awakens, recognizes the name Moron, and laughs— something inside the doctor finally breaks. What follows begins as revenge but grows into something far more dangerous. As old enemies begin crossing James’s path, the respected physician discovers how easily power, trust, medicine, influence, and friendship can hide darkness in plain sight. But James isn’t the only one keeping secrets. Behind seemingly ordinary marriages lies an increasingly complicated web of forbidden attraction, hidden relationships, secret payments, political ambition, divided loyalties, and quiet acts of protection. Everyone believes they know who is protecting whom. Almost no one knows the whole truth. And as James’s influence expands from the hospital corridors of Tulsa into the highest levels of law enforcement, one question becomes harder to ignore: How many people will Doctor Moron save—and how many will he decide were never worth saving at all? Doctor Moron is a dark, provocative psychological thriller about humiliation, revenge, power, desire, loyalty, and the dangerous things people will do for the ones they refuse to betray.
