Borrowed Time

Borrowed Time
CJ Lyons (Author)
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National Bestseller CJ Lyons has been praised as a "master of the genre" (Pittsburgh Magazine) for her "breathtakingly fast-paced" (Publishers Weekly) romantic medical thrillers.

Pittsburgh Police Officer Kate O'Hern is on the trail of a killer targeting cops. Only problem, he's already killed her once...

Trauma surgeon Joshua Lightner saved Kate's life, only to have her awaken suffering from an unexpected side effect: visons of other people's deaths. As a doctor, he refuses to believe in "psychic mumbo-jumbo" but as a man, he can't deny his feelings for Kate.

When the killer targets them both, are they living on BORROWED TIME?

As a pediatric ER doctor, CJ Lyons has lived the life she writes about in her cutting edge suspense novels. She has assisted police and prosecutors with cases involving child abuse, rape, homicide and Munchausen by Proxy and has worked in numerous trauma centers, as a crisis counselor, victim advocate, as well as a flight physician for Life Flight. CJ credits her patients and their families for teaching her the art of medicine and giving her the courage to pursue her dream of becoming a novelist.

Her first novel, LIFELINES (Berkley, March 2008), received praise as a "breathtakingly fast-paced medical thriller" from Publishers Weekly, was reviewed favorably by the Baltimore Sun and Newsday, named a Top Pick by Romantic Times Book Review Magazine, and became a National Bestseller. LIFELINES also won a Readers' Choice Award for Best First Novel.

Her award-winning, critically acclaimed Angels of Mercy series
(LIFELINES, WARNING SIGNS, URGENT CARE and CRITICAL CONDITION) is
available now.  Her newest project is as co-author of a new suspense
series with Erin Brockovich.  To learn more about CJ and her work, go to
cjlyons.net.

BORROWED TIME was the first thriller novel I wrote.  In it, a Pittsburgh police officer tracks a killer targeting cops.  The only problem?  He's already killed her once.

Good hook, great idea with lots of possibilities.  But where's the passion?  Is it the idea of a cop dying, laying down her life to protect and serve others?  Is it about how our society breeds and creates serial killers?  Is it about returning from the dead and how that changed everything?

I chose the first.   I decided this story was about a cop raised in the tradition that the best, most honorable, greatest thing you can do in this world is to be a cop and protect and serve.  That was her driving force, her motivation, her reason to live.

And on page three, that's her reason to die.  That's right, she's killed in the first pages.

She's resuscitated by a handsome trauma surgeon and wakes to find that not only is she physically maimed by her encounter with the killer, but she's also psychologically damaged.  When she wakes, she has terrifying visions of people's deaths and so begins to think she's crazy.  A belief confirmed when she learns that she actually was dead for several minutes and that she might have brain damage.

Now I've taken a character whose default action is to take action, even if it means sacrificing her own life, and what have I done?  I've immobilized her, stripped her of her power, made her helpless.  Even more, I've made her fear for her physical recovery while also doubting her very sanity.

Then I make things worse for her...

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CJ

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