THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, INTENSIVE CARE: The Story of a Nurse, (revised 2024) is the gripping account of critical care nurse, Echo Heron. From training to practice in emergency and coronary care units, Heron's riveting first-person account carries an emotional impact that will leave few readers unmoved. A winning mixture of emotion, humor, and medical life and death dramas, INTENSIVE CARE is a fast-paced and fascinating must-read.

PULSEBook 1 in the Adele Monsarrat Mystery Thriller Series (Revised 2025)Adele Monsarrat is a dedicated nurse on Ellis Hospital's infamous Ward 8 where anything can happen—and usually does. But when sweet young Chloe, everyone's favorite nurse, dies in the recovery room after a routine appendectomy, Adele is the first to suspect murder. It's the third traumatic death among the hospital staff in a year, and Adele is...

As the healthcare debate rages on with the growth of the HMO industry, nurses quietly continue to provide the day-to-day grit and deeply-felt passion that hold the healing profession together. Within these remarkable women and men are poignant, outrageous stories drawn from the edge of life. But fear of career backlash and reprisals have made them reluctant to talk to outsiders about their experience. Now Echo Heron, New York Times bestselling author of Intensive Care, draws truths far str...

Echo Heron presents riveting and unforgettable narratives from emergency room nurses across the nation. EMERGENCY 24/7: Nurses of the Emergency Room, portrays thirty-one nurses, each with a distinctive voice and unique view of what really goes on behind the closed doors of the secret and chaotic world of the emergency room.Included are the moment-by-moment chronicles of eleven nurses who worked in New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. These compelling accounts ...

Condition Critical: The Story of a Nurse Continues (Revised 2024) is the compelling sequel to the New York Times bestselling Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse.With her trademark wit and razor-sharp sensibilities, critical care nurse Echo Heron gives readers an intimate view into the emotional and often shocking world behind the closed doors of a hospital. Sidestepping antiquated bureaucratic rules, Heron chronicles her second decade in the batt...

IN THE SUMMER OF 1888, Clara Wolcott, a daring young artist from Ohio, walked into Louis Tiffany's Manhattan office to interview for a job as a designer. For the next 21 years, her pivotal role in his multi-million dollar empire remained one of Tiffany's most closely guarded secrets—a secret that when revealed 118 years later sent the international art world into a tailspin. Torn between his obsession with Clara and his lust for success, Tiffany resorts to desperate measures to keep her cr...

**MOOSHIE: LIFE WITH AN UNCONVENTIONAL CATA lonely writer. A suicidal kitten. Together they were the perfect interspecies couple.**On Mother's Day, 1984, the author sets out to find the solution to the 12-inch Norwegian wharf rats routinely invading her creekside cottage. Enter Mushu Pork With Pancakes, a.k.a. Mooshie, the Burmese cat with an unusual penchant for dry sherry, English Breakfast tea and mayhem. It doesn't take Heron long to realized that her new feline compani...

**MERCY, a Novel (Revised 2024) CATALINA RICHARDSON, RN, is both dedicated nurse and black sheep of Mercy Hospital's Ward 2. Battle-weary from continually bucking a system choked by hospital politics, obnoxious doctors and self-serving management, the main things that keep the feisty redhead going are her patients. This week's assignments are among the most challenging and intriguing: CORKY, the teen unwilling to divulge the nightmarish truth behind his ...

PANICBook 2 in the Adele Monsarrat Mystery Thriller SeriesA big city Hospital. A rogue killer virus . . . and no cure in sight. Iris Hersh, teenaged daughter of Senator hopeful Dr. Gordon Hersh, was in perfect health just hours ago. Now, she hovers near death, ravaged by a virus that medical science has never before encountered—and doesn't know how to stop. As the virus claims one victim after another, Adele Monsarrat, a nurse on Ellis Hosp...

FATAL DIAGNOSISBook 4 in the Adele Monsarrat Mytery Thriller SeriesAfter minor breast surgery a patient complains of an inexplicable rash that won't go away. Another patient's new pacemaker plays havoc with electrical equipment. A headless man is fished out of San Francisco Bay, his body disfigured by a monster with a scalpel. On Ellis Hospital's infamous Ward 8, nurse Adele Monsarrat draws a connection between the strange postsurgical even...

PARADOXBook 3 in the Adele Monsarrat Mystery Thriller SeriesOn Ellis Hospital's infamous Ward 8, the frightened young patient remembers nothing about where she was going when her car plunged over a cliff, or the identity of the child in the backseat. But to nurse Adele Monsarrat, something in the woman's story just doesn't add up. Following her instincts, Adele visits the scene of the accident and finds more than she bargained for. When fou...

Echo Heron served for eighteen years as a critical care nurse. In this book, she relates the true and riveting stories of nurses staff whose every-day experiences in the front line of medicine will inspire the listener. “Heron gives a voice to her fellow nurses (a savvy, wisecracking, take-no-guff voice) and turns them into real people.” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)