Obsession in White Coats
Each character at St. Aurelius has something to lose — a license, a reputation, a home, a future. Lana and Klein’s relationship doesn’t exist in a vacuum; it’s a fault line running through roommates, colleagues, rivals, and the one man who quietly sees everything.
Lana Devry
The People-Pleaser
A broke, overachieving pharma rep whose survival depends on being agreeable — until the morgue teaches her that obedience can be a choice, not a reflex. Lana starts out chasing a bonus and a lease extension; she ends up negotiating the terms of her own desire while unknowingly standing in the center of a data war.
Dr. Jean Klein
The Controlled One
Chief cardiothoracic surgeon, legend of St. Aurelius, and a man who vowed never to lose control again after a catastrophic patient death. Klein channels precision and grief into rules — for his OR, for the morgue, for Lana. She’s the one variable he can’t keep at a distance, and the one person he’s willing to burn the hospital down for.
Marisa
The Roommate
Lana’s best friend, chaos-manager, and soft place to land. Marisa sees the shift in Lana before Lana can name it — the new calm in her shoulders, the danger in her eyes. She provides warmth, humor, and the uncomfortable questions Lana can’t avoid forever: What if this isn’t healthy?
Dr. Elise Hart
The Displaced Equal
A fellow physician and former colleague-turned-entanglement, Elise shared Klein’s worst night and mistook grief for love. Watching Lana stroll into spaces she fought years to earn curdles into obsession. Elise weaponizes what she knows best — protocol, data, and rumor — convinced she’s reclaiming what was hers.
Dr. Nate Holland
The Politician
Charismatic, ambitious, and always two moves ahead. Holland sees Lana as leverage and Klein as a rival standing between him and donor money. If corrupting a trial and sacrificing a rep is what it takes to win the hospital, he’ll do it — smile intact.
Jayden
The Watcher
Klein’s right hand on the floor and the one person who knows exactly what happens when the morgue doors close. Jayden routes schedules, erases traces, and quietly digs into the digital trail framing Lana. He’s not on anyone’s board, but he’s the reason anyone at St. Aurelius is still standing.
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Obsession is the side effect.
When a desperate pharma rep walks into the coldest hospital in the city, she doesn’t just chase a contract — she steps into the orbit of a brilliant, dominant surgeon whose secret playroom sits behind the morgue doors. In a world of falsified data, weaponized desire, and power games in white coats, their relationship is the one variable nobody can control.
A broke pharma rep with a people-pleasing streak walks into St. Aurelius Hospital chasing a formulary contract — and collides with Dr. Jean Klein, a brilliant, dominant surgeon who turns the morgue into his private playroom. As falsified trial data and hospital politics close in, their intense, secret relationship becomes the only thing more dangerous than the conspiracy they’re trapped inside.
Lana Devry is out of options: late rent, looming probation at Vascura, and a hospital that treats reps like background noise. Her last shot is St. Aurelius — and the impenetrable Dr. Jean Klein, whose name is carved into the cardiac wing. When he finally grants her a meeting, it’s not in a conference room but through a side door, down a service stairwell, and into the cold steel of the morgue.
What starts as controlled “breath and posture” drills to prepare Lana for high-stakes presentations morphs into a dominant–submissive arrangement in a soft-lit room hidden beyond the body drawers. Klein trains her to hold still under pressure, to speak data without flinching, and to surrender control only to him. To Lana, his rare “good girl” lands with the force of oxygen in a sealed room.
But someone inside St. Aurelius is falsifying the very data Lana is selling, framing her as unethical while positioning a rival drug for a lucrative takeover. Dr. Elise Hart, Klein’s former colleague and brief entanglement, and Dr. Nate Holland, a political operator with his eye on Klein’s job, weaponize rumor, protocol, and “patient safety” to push Lana out and take Klein down. Klein launches his own quiet investigation — bending policy, pulling Jayden into the shadows as his fixer — even as his obsession with Lana blinds him to the personal cost. By the time Lana signs a lease with his name on it, and Vascura offers her a promotion at a notorious hospital in another city, it’s clear: their love story isn’t an escape from the system. It’s a war inside it.