The heavy door of the underground asylum locked, but the true nightmare was the internal directive slip bearing Julian’s signature. My husband had intercepted the heart perfectly matched for my brother, classifying it as medical waste just to reserve it for his mistress, Chloe. Gripping a shattered glass shard, I activated the SOS chip hidden beneath my skin. Resurrecting my true identity meant the naive wife he knew would burn to ashes. I would fake my death to escape, paying the agonizing price of a brother who could never be brought back to life. A year later, as Chloe’s heart fails, a desperate Julian boards a private medical ship to beg the legendary Dr. J for salvation, entirely unaware of whose face waits behind the silver surgical mask.