Every rescue costs her something. She just didn't know it would cost her everything.What happens when mercy has no off-switch?ER nurse Naomi Thorne knows what it means to lose someone.She knows the sound of a monitor going flat. The weight of exhausted hands after failed compressions. The quiet moment after a doctor calls a time of death, when everyone moves on because another patient is already waiting.Naomi has survived those moments by telling herself the same thing every nurse must eventually believe:Do your best.Save who you can.Let go of the ones you can't.Then a dying man presses two strange stones into her hand and whispers three words that will change her life forever.Make it matter.That night, Naomi separates the stones. One moment she is standing in her kitchen. The next, she is beneath freezing lake water, reaching for a drowning woman who is seconds from death.The stones do not give Naomi power. They pull her into disaster.Car crashes. Fires. Falls. Flooded roads. Strangers trapped in their last moments, each one waiting for someone to arrive before death gets there first.And Naomi keeps arriving.But every rescue leaves something behind.Bruises she cannot explain. Exhaustion that sleep cannot touch. A ledger she keeps in secret, trying to chart something no medical record has a column for.A terrifying question she cannot stop asking:If she has the chance to save someone, does she still have the right to say no?As the rescues become more dangerous and the cost becomes impossible to hide, Naomi begins to understand the truth. And the people closest to her are not as far from the stones' reach as she believes.The stones are not asking for courage. They are demanding sacrifice.And if Naomi cannot learn where mercy ends, she may lose the very life she is trying to protect.Mercy or Nothing is a gripping supernatural medical thriller about compassion, compulsion, sacrifice, and the brutal line between saving lives and losing yourself.Perfect for readers who love emotional suspense, impossible choices, medical drama, and supernatural thrillers with heart.
