I Traded My Body To Save My Mother

For years, Kendall's mother has stayed alive on chemotherapy and private nurses paid for by Reid Blackwell, a man who despises her. Ten thousand dollars a night, a cash-for-sex arrangement, all because she, a surgical resident, delivered a diagnosis his newest obsession, Phoebe, refused to hear: infertility. Her license suspended by an investigation he instigated, Kendall has nothing left but her grandmother's wedding ring, sold to cover her mother's final consultation. Reid lets Phoebe, a gossip columnist, leak their marriage to the city, and Kendall becomes its joke.

On New Year's Eve, her mother reads the headlines and jumps from the eighth floor of the hospital. As Manhattan's skyline erupts in Reid's fireworks for Phoebe, Kendall holds her mother's body and hears her last whisper: that she was not named to compromise. When Reid finally appears, it is not grief but an interrogation, a demand that she apologize to Phoebe, and a threat against the nurse who cared for her mother. Bound to him still, Kendall must decide what remains of her when everything she loved has been taken.