Behind The Badge

Behind the Badge: a novel about power, fear, and the infection of silence

In a unit built on silence, Jessa made the mistake of telling the truth.

It started with documentation-just words on a screen. But in a hospital where retaliation is quiet and calculated, even truth becomes dangerous. Nurses are vanishing. Complaints are scrubbed. And the ones who speak up start to disappear-literally and professionally.

Jessa isn't trying to be a hero. She's just trying to survive shift to shift without becoming the next one erased.

As back-channel reports leak, as leadership gaslights the staff, and as a shadow network of resistance begins to take shape, she's forced to decide: stay safe and stay silent... or risk everything to be heard.

Because in this place, the badge might say nurse-
But the system sees you as disposable.

• Lateral violence, weaponized documentation, and the brutal truth of what happens when you speak up in a system built to shut you down

• A nurse pushed to her breaking point-and still showing up

• Missing staff, missing records, and a reporter chasing a story leadership would kill to bury

• A raw, unflinching look at the way silence protects power-and what it costs to break it

Behind the Badge is book two in the Behind the Nurse series.
It's not a sequel.
It's a scalpel.

And this time, the cut goes deeper.