Description
A clinical-trial coordinator in North Carolina’s Research Triangle discovers that a “miracle” migraine drug only looks like one because the placebo patients are secretly getting it too. The badge log names her ex-husband, the trial’s lead doctor. The truth is in her own missing hours.
Genre: Domestic thriller · psychological suspense · medical setting · unreliable narrator
Tropes: Unreliable narrator · the ex-husband who looks guilty · memory gaps and lost time · dual timeline · workplace secrets · a custody fight · the twist that reframes every chapter
Target length: 80,000–85,000 words (about 320–340 pages)
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