I am really really bad at keeping secrets, and I’m so glad to get to announce this one! EXPOSURE, my second novel, will be out in Summer 2024.
I call EXPOSURE my burnout book. I had a few chapters of a different Cardiology related novel written for my second novel, but when it started feeling like a prison instead of an escape, I knew I had to switch gears. There was so much pent up trauma & frustration leftover from the pandemic, from residency, that needed to be released. And y’all know I create at least in part to cope 😂
And so I conceived Josephine “Jo” Boateng, who has curated an image of herself online as the embodiment of feminine power (brilliant, beautiful, defiantly single), but has also neglected her personal life, only half dealt with her childhood trauma, and who feels a tremendous amount of guilt about leaving her primary care practice for locums. It’s hard for Jo to believe that people would love her if they really knew her. And then she meets Mal, who is authentically awkward, well-loved, and himself settling into a new life, and, well, you’ll find out what happens in 2 years.
Like ON ROTATION, EXPOSURE is meant to do a lot of things at once: showcase an experience, educate a bit about the state of medicine from a physician’s perspective, and, most importantly, tell a love story.
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