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Two lady doctors
A century apart
And one missing baby.
CODE PINK - Emergency in the nursery. A baby is gone.
In a 1980s Chicago hospital, third-year med student Joan Turner's first pediatric rotation goes from high-stress to high-stakes when a newborn vanishes under her watch. The overhead hospital alert, Code Pink, launches her into a tangled investigation involving a baby-smuggling ring preying on the city's most vulnerable mothers.
As Joan juggles grueling shifts, looming exams, and the chilling sense she's being followed, comfort comes from an unlikely place: the past. Her great-great-great-aunt Eleanor, one of America's first female physicians, reaches across the decades through a series of vivid dream-visions and long-lost letters. Eleanor's 1850s world of bloodletting, leeches, and early surgical theaters becomes both a balm and a guide for Joan, illuminating a path forward in her own fight for justice.
A genre-bending blend of medical mystery, historical fiction, and feminist grit, CODE PINK is a pulse-pounding debut about two trailblazing women, one urgent mystery, and the timeless cost of speaking truth to power-inside and outside the operating room.
About the author
Dr. Marilyn Mets began writing fiction after retiring from her long career as a pediatric ophthalmologist. Code Pink, her debut novel, draws on decades of experience providing medical and surgical eye care to the children of Chicago. Now an emeritus professor at Northwestern University, she offers readers an insider's look at the challenges of coming of age in medicine, blending suspense, historical fiction, and her deep understanding of medical education to both entertain and inform.She lives in Chicago with her husband and their poodle, Lila. Their three children, five grandchildren, and three more dogs are scattered across the United States.
