Scrubs & Secrets

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In long-term care the most disturbing stories are the ones no one writes down. Minerva Williams is about to discover why.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fiction inspired by true events.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Minerva Williams never meant to become the keeper of secrets. She only wanted to do her job. As a CNA she works every shift the facility gives her. Mornings evenings doubles weekends and all the ones no one else wants. Over time she learns the quiet rhythm of long-term care. The routines. The politics. The silences that say more than words.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then she starts noticing things she cannot ignore. A resident with an injury that does not match the explanation. A sudden death no one questions. Staff behavior that changes at the wrong moments. Charts that feel incomplete in a way she cannot explain. At first she tells herself she is overthinking. Then she begins writing things down.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What starts as a private notebook becomes something far more dangerous. A pattern. A map. A truth that lives between the lines of the official records. The deeper Minerva looks the more she realizes what every healthcare worker eventually learns.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It is not the patients who scare you. It is the staff.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Scrubs and Secrets</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a psychological suspense novella grounded in real long-term care experiences. Quiet. Chilling. Intimate. A story about intuition power and the cost of seeing what others refuse to see.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is the beginning of the Minerva Williams series.</span></p><p></p>