Free Faint Trace by M. P. Cooley

mid-­sixties. While it’s not hard and fast, a rule of thumb is that if you add a person’s age to the amount of their body burned to the third degree, you get the percent chance someone might die: If she’s in her fifties, it might be a seventy-­five percent chance of death, and if she’s in her sixties, closer to eight-­five.” Dave’s face fell. Gayle plowed on. “And any comorbidities—­diabetes, heart disease, asthma—­might mean worse odds.”
    The woman’s breathing got heavy. I didn’t see any blips on the monitors, but Gayle picked up her catheter bag and examined the urine critically.
    â€œWe’re over-­hydrating her,” she said. “We might be drowning her right now. You need to go. I’ll be sure to call you if she wakes up, even for a second, I promise I’ll get a name.” Gayle adjusted the woman’s IV, lowering her fluid. “We want to find out who our friend is as much as you do.”

 
    About the Author
    M.P. COOLEY ’s crime novel Ice Shear was named one of O, The Oprah Magazine ’s Best Books of Summer 2014 and was called “an excellent debut” by Publishers Weekly in their starred review. A native of upstate New York, she currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her second novel Flame Out will publish in May 2015.
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    This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    Excerpt from Flame Out copyright © 2015 by Martha Cooley
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