Dr. Bryce Chapman Medical Thriller Series
Redemption (Book One)
Bryce Chapman is an Emergency Medicine Physician in Indianapolis, married with two kids and at the peak of his career. His comfortable life is threatened on all fronts when a patient he sees dies unexpectedly and a life saved while on vacation in the Bahamas turns into an attack on his freedom.
He is sued for malpractice, in danger of losing his job, and a warrant is out for his arrest. He must determine what caused his patient to die in order to stop a massive malpractice settlement. Faced with an arrest warrant in the Bahamas, he struggles to prove he is falsely accused by the person whose life he saved.
Bryce engages the help of his wife, several colleagues and friends to fight for his family and his career. Once he determines what happened to his patient, he struggles with the “do no harm” portion of his oath. Is justice and retribution required in order for redemption to be his?
Deception (Book Two)
Dr. Bryce Chapman, an ER doctor who recently bent the law until it broke to protect his own family, finds himself in the crosshairs of a man doing the same thing. This man is one of the wealthiest in town and will stop at nothing to shield his daughter from the consequences of her actions. Lies and deceit are as ingrained in human psychology as the desire to protect one’s family. When these forces align, it spells disaster for anyone who stands in their way.
Sins of the past resurface and force Bryce to do something he abhors in order to avoid prison. This task becomes more difficult when he must drop everything to rescue a friend in trouble. How could he know that in doing so, he was walking right into a trap?
Vengeance (Book Three)
A week on an all-inclusive private island in the Bahamas? Check. Bringing your friends and family with you? Check. Flying down on a private corporate jet? Check.
This vacation promised everything Dr. Bryce Chapman enjoys. Unfortunately, disaster follows him like a heat-seeking missile and the magical vacation transforms into a desperate struggle for survival.
An approaching tropical storm provides a distraction for Tony Proffit, Bryce’s nemesis, who appears unexpectedly and fully armed. Physicians swear an oath to save lives, but someone is going to die on this trip. Bryce and his friends must combine their ingenuity and medical training to reduce the odds that it’s one of them who dies on this cursed trip.
Hanging By A String (Book Four)
Dr. Bryce Chapman made it back from the Bahamas with a gunshot wound to the leg and a hole in his arm, but an intact family. And $20 million worth of bitcoin. As he eases back into his life as an ER doctor and coroner, the money is burning a hole in his pocket as he seeks ways to spend it.
But which is a stronger motivator? The desire to spend a sudden influx of life-changing money, or the desire to exact revenge on someone who stole pocket change from you? Bryce will soon learn the worst position to be in a war is clueless that he is even in one.
He finds himself threatened with professional and character assassination by a man who seems untouchable. Faced with an impossible task by his puppet master to avoid the consequence, he needs to find another way to cut the strings once and for all. Even if it means making a deal with the devil.
Dr. Bryce Chapman Novelettes
Harvest Moon
Chantelle Davis loves her children, and will do anything she can to give them a better life. Even if it means subjecting herself to treatment by a physician operating outside the law. When Dr. Bryce Chapman treats a patient who suffered a complication of a procedure, he learns she is part of this underground program. Rather than sit by while the program harms others, he teams up with his wife to get inside and try to take it down. But like most things for Bryce, the execution of his plan creates more problems than it solves. At the end, the reader can decide which is more important. Morality or legality.
Desperate Measures
Desperate times call for desperate measures. When patients desire weight loss but insurance denies medications and surgery, dietary changes fail, and exercise has not worked, what other option is there? Bryce Chapman notices unusual behavior in a patient and suspects something is amiss, but the patient will not come clean. It's not until a problem arises in a coworker that he identifies the cause. Now that he knows, what is he going to do about it? Call the police? Call the board of health? Or wait for others to be harmed while the wheels of justice turn at a snail's pace?
Perseus Eco-Terror Thriller Series
It Happened In The Loft (Book One)
Up and coming genetic researcher Dr. Chloe Nelson has achieved a major scientific breakthrough. She can now modify the genome of nearly any species. The problem is, she can’t tell anyone about it, or why she wants to do it. Especially not the leading researcher whose grant money funds the lab she works in, because she’d try to stop her.
Genetically engineered organisms are a fascinating concept, but what if there are negative consequences of creating an unnatural organism? And what if those negatives are intentional?
Needing to test her work, Chloe turns a lonely undergrad into a test subject without his knowledge and confirms her experiment is a success. Instead of fame and fortune, this gains her access to an elite international group of eco-terrorists led by a mysterious man named Perseus. His vast resources can amplify the impact of Chloe’s genetic breakthrough. They can also protect her plans through murder and destruction.
Can anyone stop her before she unleashes permanent change upon the world?
This is the first book in an eco-thriller series sure to leave you unsettled and looking over your shoulder. This series is a crossover with the author's Dr Bryce Chapman medical thriller series.
Seeds of Change (Book Two)
Life on a farm can change in an instant, and for high school junior Michael Doyle, it did. He watches his parents die when their tractor flips in the field, and then inheritance tax strips him of the land his parents sacrificed everything for.
Taken in by his uncle, a wealthy commodities trader in Chicago, he adjusts to life in the big city while trying to hold on to what remained of his life back home. He doesn't settle into life in Chicago well and faces an urban environment that mocks every aspect of agricultural life.
Disillusioned by collegiate life, he drops out and takes a job working for his uncle as a trader. His math proficiency and farming knowledge allow him to master commodities trading quickly and become a rising star at Doyle Investments. The disconnect between financial success of farmers and the commodities industry sends him on a personal quest to level the playing field.
He devises a plan to empower farmers, raise crop prices, and kick the commodities industry in the gut. Unfortunately his plan involves planting hundreds of bombs in fields across the nation. The question is, how many will die before the point is made? Will Perseus and his network find Michael before the FBI? Will his Seeds of Change turn America back towards supporting its farmers?
Sacrificial Touch Christian Thriller Series
Sacrificial Touch - Christian Medical Thriller
Life as an ER doctor is intense. A shift can turn from mundane to insane in a matter of moments depending on what walks in, or crawls in, the door. Dr. Cameron Turner was no stranger to death. It happened all the time in the ER, but usually not to the doctor. When an irate patient loses control, Cameron crumbles to the ground with a mortal wound.
While the team races to save their colleague from certain death, Cameron opens his eyes and finds himself face-to-face with God. He is offered something he has sought his entire life. The ability to heal anyone of anything, but it comes with a catch that only he knows about. The gift is not unlimited, and its expiration date matches his own.
Cameron must choose when to use the gift, and faces unforeseen consequences when his choice angers those around him, including inside his own family. The world proves it is not prepared for the undeniable acts of God, which sends Cameron into hiding for his own safety. Robbed of his freedom and his family, he plans an epic finale that will change the hearts of even those who persecuted him.
Foreward written by fellow author and emergency medicine physician, Dr. John Galt Robinson. Find his action thriller novels on Amazon.
A View To Eternity : Book Two in the Sacrificial Touch Christian Thriller Series
A View To Eternity is the sequel to Sacrificial Touch. It follows Aaron Turner, the son of Dr. Cameron Turner, as the plot rolls forward.
Aaron is still only a teenager, but God isn't afraid to thrust him into national prominence with another gift from Heaven. His father comes to him in a dream and delivers an object that offers a glimpse of the afterlife.
How will society react to more direct evidence of a living God? Of proof of eternal life, and condemnation? If you finished Sacrificial Touch and wanted more, this is it! You'll experience characters living the Great Commission and want to pick up your own cross and join the movement.
I hope to publish this novel in the summer of 2026. It will end in dramatic fashion that foreshadows where the series is headed. Hold on tight!
Stand Alone Novels
It Happened In The Loft
Dr. Alex Lee is that rarest of people: a talented physician with a life going nowhere. The emergency department is the only place he feels safe from the crippling anxiety that's slowly corroding his life; all because of what happened in a barn loft seventeen years ago.
Through pathologic dedication to patient care, he tries to atone for the guilt of that day while battling severe PTSD that threatens to end his career. Misery and self-defeat are normal until a flirtatious nurse with a secret of her own catches his eye.
Alex enlists the help of a psychotherapist to help him process the root of his past emotional trauma to improve his present and future. His career and future relationships depend on successful treatment, as he will need someone by his side when he learns what really happened that day in the loft.
Lake Sinclair
When Harrison Sinclair answers the phone and learns his sister is still alive, it changes everything. Found unconscious in a car a state away, she's now in a medically induced coma in the ICU, despite the courts having pronounced her dead decades ago.
It seems you just can't trust an assassin these days. He rushes to the hospital to personally finish the job, lest she reveal what happened that night twenty-five years ago. What he doesn't know, is this is exactly what the puppet-master expects him to do.
Twenty-five years can change a person, or it can leave them exactly the same.
The Muddled Mind
The Muddled Mind - An Eclectic Collection of Short Stories, is a bundled work of seventeen individual short stories. The themes include action/thriller, fantasy, romance, and more. The author, Brian Hartman, is a practicing physician and therefore many of the stories have a medical-based theme.
Each story begins with the writing prompt used as the inspiration for the work and ends with a quick note from the author about the meaning of the story.
What you will experience while you read:
- Jump into a mob family during a struggle for internal control.
- Follow a thief who discovers a magical secret about his bracelet
- Observe a father's selfless act of love toward his daughter the addict
- Cheer an assassin as he tries to win the girl
- Bite your nails as a Vegas drug delivery goes bad
- Watch how an art teacher encourages a frustrated student
- And many more!