Informed Consent

He signed the form.

Then he lost part of himself.

When Army veteran Cody Raines confronts a VA psychiatrist in a hospital hallway, the case looks open-and-shut. Three witnesses. One admission. One public defender assigned to negotiate a plea.

But Nora Voss reads the file.

Every page.

What begins as a routine assault defense turns into something far more troubling when a missing medical record leads Nora into a little-known rehabilitation program called MERIT.

A program that promised recovery.

A program that used an experimental drug.

A program whose participants were never told the whole truth.

As Nora uncovers hidden consent forms, buried clinical data, and a growing list of veterans reporting the same disturbing symptoms, she finds herself facing an institution determined to protect itself.

The deeper she digs, the more one question refuses to go away:

What if the people who signed the forms never actually understood what they were agreeing to?

A tense legal thriller about trust, bureaucracy, and the cost of information withheld, Informed Consent is a procedural mystery where every signature matters-and every missing page may hide the truth.