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CODE: PULSE BOOK 5
Ten years. Same hospital. Same meetings. Same silence where the truth should be.
Dr. Diane Fontaine is the medical director of the Centre Hospitalier Saint-Laurent — the highest authority in the building. She navigated twenty years in a world built for men to reach this office. Every word she speaks is measured. Every decision is strategic. No one truly knows her. At forty-five, she rules a medical empire and goes home to an empty apartment every night. She made peace with that solitude. What she hasn't done is admit that peace and acceptance aren't the same thing.
Dr. Simon Arcand is a medical examiner who works with the hospital on institutional deaths. He operates independently. Answers to no one. Speaks for the dead with an irony so precise it borders on provocation — except it's just clarity. He's known Diane for a decade. Sat across from her in committees, corrected her reports without apology, and never once tried to impress her. He is the only person in her professional world who doesn't fear her or want something from her.
When a controversial case forces them onto opposing sides of an institutional conflict, ten years of unspoken tension finally demand an answer. Diane must choose between the walls that built her career and the man who sees through every single one of them.
Code is the fifth and final book in the PULSE series — a steamy Montréal medical romance with dual POV, a heroine who controls everything except what she wants, a hero who speaks for the dead and lives for her, and a decade of tension that was always leading here.
forbidden (absolute), slow burn (ten years), second chance, power couple
Content open-door steamy scenes, themes of ambition, isolation, and late-in-life desire. Standalone with HEA. Series finale.
Dr. Diane Fontaine is the medical director of the Centre Hospitalier Saint-Laurent — the highest authority in the building. She navigated twenty years in a world built for men to reach this office. Every word she speaks is measured. Every decision is strategic. No one truly knows her. At forty-five, she rules a medical empire and goes home to an empty apartment every night. She made peace with that solitude. What she hasn't done is admit that peace and acceptance aren't the same thing.
Dr. Simon Arcand is a medical examiner who works with the hospital on institutional deaths. He operates independently. Answers to no one. Speaks for the dead with an irony so precise it borders on provocation — except it's just clarity. He's known Diane for a decade. Sat across from her in committees, corrected her reports without apology, and never once tried to impress her. He is the only person in her professional world who doesn't fear her or want something from her.
When a controversial case forces them onto opposing sides of an institutional conflict, ten years of unspoken tension finally demand an answer. Diane must choose between the walls that built her career and the man who sees through every single one of them.
Code is the fifth and final book in the PULSE series — a steamy Montréal medical romance with dual POV, a heroine who controls everything except what she wants, a hero who speaks for the dead and lives for her, and a decade of tension that was always leading here.
forbidden (absolute), slow burn (ten years), second chance, power couple
Content open-door steamy scenes, themes of ambition, isolation, and late-in-life desire. Standalone with HEA. Series finale.
374 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 2, 2026
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