PAGES OF THE PULSE

Erigin 10 stories

Summary

Dr. Kieran Velasquez doesn't just read medical dramas—he rewrites them. A brilliant trauma surgeon with a gift for medicine and a talent for pushing people away, Kieran's only escape is a gritty webcomic, Trauma Code: Saint’s Edge. Until the night he falls asleep reading it… and wakes up as its idealistic protagonist, Dr. Jin Seo, in a dystopian hospital where the equipment is archaic and every case is a death sentence. Kieran discovers a dangerous rhythm: every life he saves in the comic snaps him back to reality, and the surgery he just performed appears in the next online chapter. He’s now a surgeon in two worlds—mastering cutting-edge technology in Los Angeles, and improvising miracles with gauze and grit in the comic's decaying wards. But the line between fiction and reality is bleeding thin. Patients from the comic begin appearing on his real-world operating table. Budget cuts and equipment failures mirror the comic's decay. And the mysterious author behind it all is someone from his past—dying, and claiming she lost control of the story. To save both his worlds from a fatal plot, Kieran must do the one thing his genius has never allowed: merge his surgical skill with the heart of the character he inspired. Because if the final chapter closes, a universe—and everyone in it—will flatline for good.