The Perfect Nurse
‘My name is Darcy, I’m your nurse and I’m here to help you.’ I repeat the words I’ve said so many times. Except this time, I don’t mean it…
If you saw me walking down the street, you’d think I was pretty ordinary – I wear the typical crisp, white nursing uniform, my hands are scrubbed clean and you’d have no reason to believe I was anything other than a good citizen. A good nurse.
But looks can be deceiving. You shouldn’t trust me – because I don’t even know if I can trust myself.
Now I stare at the reflection in the mirror – dark smudges under my eyes and blood on my hands – listening for the sound of police sirens.
Because the truth is I had to do something terrible. I broke all the rules a nurse should follow. I wanted someone gone so badly. And now they’re dead because of me.
I’m looking over my shoulder everywhere I go because I’m sure someone knows my secret. Then when my home is broken into I know one simple truth: this isn’t over yet…
It’s only the beginning.
The police are the least of my worries now. But to save myself, am I going to have to kill again?
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Daniel Hurst
I’ve wanted to be a writer ever since I can remember. As a child, I would scribble stories and give them to my parents, my overactive imagination filled with excitement and dreams as I felt like being an author was just something you chose to do and it was as easy as that.
Fast forward a few decades and I was in my thirties, still harbouring the childhood dream, yet feeling as far away from it as ever. I worked 9-5 as a procurement officer in a bank, a job that did little to set my creative imagination soaring. Worse than that, due to a combination of lethargy, fear, and a lack of knowledge about the publishing world, I had no finished stories, no readers, and therefore, no writing career.
One day, I refused to let my dream die and I committed to not only finishing books but putting them out into the world. In February 2020, thanks to Amazon’s KDP platform, I began self publishing, and to say it changed my life would be an understatement. It was in January 2021, after the successful release of my title Til Death Do Us Part, that my dream came true. I quit my day job and became a full time writer!
Since then, I have lived my dream, writing multiple books for a growing and loyal army of devoted readers. Along the way, I attracted the attention of two publishers, firstly, Inkubator, and secondly, Bookouture, an imprint of Hachette, one of The Big Five publishers. I continue to self publish, but am officially a hybrid author, regularly releasing titles with Bookouture to reach an even wider audience of readers than I could ever reach on my own.
I wouldn’t be in this position without the support of my parents, my wife and of course, my readers and, as I will teach my beautiful daughter as she gets older - follow your dreams, not the crowd.
The Perfect Nurse
The Perfect Nurse consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
