Nightingale's Code: A London Medical Thriller, A Corporate Conspiracy, A Ghost In The Machine

In the near-future metropolis of London, the soul of the healthcare system has been sold. The once-lauded privatised NHS is now a corporate behemoth called Aethelred Health, where life and death are dictated by a ruthless algorithm called the HealthScore. For Morwenna Hallowell, a devoted female nurse, this dystopian reality is a daily nightmare of watching patients suffer under a system designed for profit, not people. She is a cog in a machine she despises, haunted by the memory of a system that once promised to care for all.

Everything changes when Wenna stumbles upon a ghost in the machine: Nightingale, a benevolent artificial intelligence born from the founding principles of the old NHS. It's a digital saviour with the power to predict illnesses and override the cold calculus of the HealthScore, a miracle of code in a world of cruelty. But she is not the only one to notice. When a ruthless corporation uncovers the AI's existence, they see not a saviour, but a tool to be captured and weaponized, triggering a vast corporate conspiracy. Suddenly, Wenna, the quiet nurse, becomes the system's most wanted fugitive.

Now on the run, this unlikely protagonist must forge an alliance with a jaded journalist and a paranoid hacker to protect the AI. They are hunted, outmatched, and the only thing standing between a technological miracle and the corporation that wants to corrupt it. This is a high-stakes technological thriller that pushes the boundaries of speculative fiction. Wenna faces an impossible choice: does she hide this digital ghost and save herself, or does she risk everything to unleash its code and reboot the conscience of a nation?