Do No Harm

Langley Park, Maryland. Two miles from the nation's capital. A community locked inside its own apartments. 

When ICE operations shut down an immigrant neighborhood, nurse practitioner Joelle Banks starts making house calls — not out of politics, but because her patients are going to die without care. One patient in particular: Yesenia, twenty-three, eight months pregnant, blood pressure climbing, husband deported to Honduras. She won't go to the hospital. She won't leave her apartment. She is running out of time. 

The only person with the infrastructure to help is Dr. Marcos Villanueva — a Takoma Park physician whose polished reputation conceals a decade-long shadow practice treating criminals for cash. Joelle needs his supplies, his skills, his basement clinic. She doesn't trust him. She can't afford to walk away. 

 Then a shooting on Kanawha Street kills a toddler and floods the neighborhood with police — and connects Villanueva's criminal patients to the violence tearing the community apart. The investigation is closing in. The network is exposed. And Yesenia is going into labor. 

In a bedroom with no surgical team, no blood bank, and no margin for error, Joelle will discover that the doctor's criminal hands may be the only ones that can save two lives — and that the line between villain and hero was never a line at all. 

 Do No Harm is a white-knuckle thriller about the moral cost of survival, set in the shadow of the American immigration system.