If Memory Serves is a romantic suspense/police procedural novel about
an obstetrician with fugue, a memory disorder. As a busy obstetrician,
I have experienced sleep deprivation many times. Sleep deprivation,
during my training years, was especially intense. I had woken up in my
bed numerous times without remembering how I got there. In medical
school, I studied about fugue, so I often wondered what that may be
like. So I wrote If Memory Serves, giving my protagonist, Dr. Tara
Ross, this unusual disorder.
Here's the synopsis:
It's New Year's Eve but obstetrician, Dr. Tara Ross, isn't
celebrating. After a catastrophic delivery, Tara, a workaholic who's
sleep deprived, and already stressed to the max, lapses into a
post-traumatic memory loss. Wandering the streets of Manhattan's Upper
West Side, she is mistakenly swept up in a narcotics sting operation
and lands in Jeffrey Corrigan's precinct.
Divorced but married to the job as a dedicated homicide squad
commander, Detective Lieutenant Jeffrey Corrigan has his hands full
chasing a sadistic drug czarina, and now murder suspect, with ties to
his corrupt captain. The last thing he needs is another woman to
complicate his life. That is until he encounters Tara in the
precinct's holding cell.
Unable to drive her home during a blizzard, he has no choice but to
bring her to his house. As a temporary guest in his home, Tara and
Jeffrey build a relationship they'd both like to make permanent. While
enlisting the help of the precinct psychiatrist to restore Tara's
memory, he fears for her safety when threats mount against both their
lives. The evil drug czarina and her cadre of corrupt cops will make
him pay for nosing around in their business. They'll start with Tara.