The Ghost Doctor
Justin Forbes used to believe in second chances, until the world proved him wrong.
Once a promising young medic with unconventional methods, he’s mocked as a lunatic, fired from his job, and abandoned by everyone he trusted, even April, the woman who once swore she believed in him. Branded a disgrace, beaten by the powerful, and left to rot, Justin’s life ends in the alleyways of New York… until a dying girl’s heartbeat changes everything.
When Justin revives the Prime Minister’s daughter in a desperate act of instinct, the impossible happens, she lives. His hands burn, his mind fractures, and his gift awakens. The world whispers of a “Miracle Doctor,” but no one knows his face.
Now, hidden behind a new identity, Justin becomes the Ghost Doctor, a man whose touch can heal or kill. As he navigates the underworld of medicine, corruption, and betrayal, every life he saves costs him a piece of his own. His former enemies rise to power, his lost love comes crawling back, and a dark government project known as GENESIS hunts the secret in his blood.
In a city where saving lives is a business and revenge is currency, Justin Forbes will learn that healing the world might destroy him first.
The Hands of Vengeance is a gritty urban medical thriller filled with moral conflict, redemption, and power, where every heartbeat is a secret, every cure has a price, and every touch carries judgment.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 14 – When Frequencies CollideThe air at Dock 47 froze. Justin stood at the center of the ruined alley, his outline flickering like a damaged broadcast. His eyes, one glowing amber, one burning white, shifted between consciousness and something deeper, darker.Behind him, towering like a shadow cut from pure sound, the Black Frequency unfolded into clarity.April’s voice broke. “Justin…?”He didn’t answer. His chest rose and fell in rapid, uneven pulses. The ground trembled beneath his feet.Lydia grabbed April’s arm. “April, don’t move. Don’t even breathe too loud.”April ignored her. She stepped forward. “Justin… I know you can hear me.”Justin flinched, as if her voice struck him. His eyes darted wildly, the human part of him fighting through static.“I... ap... ril…run…” he managed, voice shredded, distorted.April reached toward him. “I’m not leaving you.”Before Justin could respond, the eleven Helix Units all pivoted toward the Black Frequency, like soldiers recognizing their commander. Their voices harmoni
Last Updated: 2025-12-06
Chapter: CHAPTER 11 – The Black FrequencyThe storm had quieted, but the air around Dock 47 felt colder, like the world held its breath after something unimaginable passed through.April stood in the wrecked monitoring station, staring at the faint glowing mark on her arm. It pulsed lightly, like a heartbeat that wasn’t hers.Lydia checked the broken door. “Whatever Justin turned into… it didn’t want us dead. That’s something, right?” April didn’t answer.“April?” Lydia repeated.April exhaled shakily. “He was running.”“From us?”April shook her head. “From something stronger.”Lydia froze. “Define ‘stronger.’ The guy literally walked through a wall.”April looked up, eyes distant. “Something his… entity was afraid of.”Before Lydia could respond, a low hum vibrated through the air, subtle at first, barely audible. But it grew… deep, resonant, unnatural.Like a frequency that didn’t belong on Earth.Lydia raised her gun automatically. “What is that?”April swallowed. “It’s… not Justin. It’s bigger.”The hum intensified. Scre
Last Updated: 2025-12-05
Chapter: CHAPTER 10 – The Mirror War (Part 2)The replica’s eyes flicked open, dim, amber, not fully alive. It spoke in a hollow echo. “Primary host identified. Synchronization pending.”April grabbed Justin’s arm. “We have to go. Now.”He didn’t move. “Wait. I can feel them. Every heartbeat, every thought… They’re inside my nervous system.”“Then cut the link!” Lydia snapped.“I can’t. If I sever it, the feedback will kill me.”April shook him. “Then we find another way!”He met her gaze, pain and static buzzing behind his voice. “There’s no other way. I made them mine, but they made me theirs.”The ground trembled. Overhead pipes burst, spraying cold river water. Lydia pulled April toward the exit ladder. “Move before this place floods!”Justin followed slowly, but halfway up he froze. The gold glow in his eyes brightened again.April turned back. “Justin?”His voice changed, flat, layered with another tone. “Integration complete.”Lydia shouted, “That’s not him!”Justin’s hand shot out, gripping the ladder until the metal scre
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Chapter: CHAPTER 10 – The Mirror War (Part 1)The first replica moved like lightning. Justin barely had time to duck before its fist smashed into a steel beam, warping the metal. Sparks rained down.“April, get behind me!” he shouted.Lydia fired twice, two clean headshots, but the bullets flattened against the replica’s skull like it was rubber.April yelled, “They’re reinforced!”“No,” Justin said, breathing hard. “They’re learning.”The replica mirrored his stance, its eyes flashing the same faint gold. It spoke in his exact tone. “Unit 001 resistance logged. Adapting.”Another figure stepped from the mist, identical down to the scar under his jaw. Lydia cursed. “Two of you. Great.”Justin dodged a punch, countered, and watched the second replica mimic the same move half a second later, perfectly. April called out, “They copy your muscle memory!”“They copy everything.” He twisted, slammed his elbow into the first replica’s chest, and felt a shockwave explode up his arm. Pain. Feedback. The replica grinned, his grin.“Shared
Last Updated: 2025-12-05
Chapter: CHAPTER 9 – Ghost CodeRain lashed against the shattered glass as they burst out of the hospital’s side entrance. The sirens were closer now, sharp, metallic howls bouncing off skyscrapers. Lydia slammed the SUV door and yelled, “Drive!”April barely got in before Justin floored the gas. Tires shrieked, water fanning behind them like wings.“Helix has us locked,” Lydia muttered, reloading her weapon. “We tripped every sensor from here to Midtown.”Justin’s eyes flickered gold in the rearview mirror. “They didn’t need sensors. They can see through me.”April looked at him sharply. “What do you mean?”He gripped the wheel tighter. “The Origin Signal, whatever it is, it’s running inside my neural system. It’s using me like a satellite.”“You’re saying they can track your mind?” Lydia asked.“Not just track,” Justin said quietly. “They can talk through it.”April leaned forward. “Justin, if you can hear them, maybe you can find their next base before they find us.”He didn’t answer. His breathing slowed, eyes g
Last Updated: 2025-11-03
Chapter: CHAPTER 8 – The Origin SignalThe rain hadn’t stopped for two days. New York looked like it was bleeding neon, red, blue, gold, into the slick streets.Lydia’s SUV screeched to a stop beside the abandoned hospital wing. “This is it,” she said. “The coordinates lead straight under Saint Harlow Memorial.”Justin’s fingers twitched against the glass. “A hospital hiding Helix servers. Poetic.”April glanced back from the passenger seat. “You think they used patients as cover?”Justin nodded slowly. “No one questions miracles inside hospitals.”The three of them stepped into the storm, hoods up. Lightning flared against the metal entrance gate, half-rusted shut. Lydia drew a crowbar from her jacket. “Move.”With a grunt, she wrenched it open. The screech echoed down the empty corridors. Inside, the air was heavy with disinfectant and rot. Broken monitors blinked faintly, machines that hadn’t worked in years.April shivered. “Feels like the dead are still waiting for treatment.”“They are,” Justin murmured.She turned t
Last Updated: 2025-11-03
Chapter: CHAPTER 15 — THE DEAD ZONEAva sprinted through the cracked basin of the Dead Zone, Echo hovering close behind and Jiro staggering at her side, clutching his partially fried shoulder plate. The air trembled, faint vibrations rolling through the dust like the ground itself was humming.“Don’t look back,” Echo warned.Jiro looked back.“OH HELL....” he choked. “It’s getting bigger!”Ava didn’t need to turn. She felt it. A gravitational pull, soft but absolute, like they were running away from a newborn star.Echo fed them telemetry in clipped bursts. “The entity is expanding its processing volume, ten meters, twenty, thirty.”“It’s hunting,” Ava said.“No,” Echo corrected. “It’s studying.”The word sent needles through her spine. They skidded to a halt at a jagged ridge, an abrupt drop into a chasm that stretched wide across the Dead Zone. The canyon was so deep the bottom dissolved into static haze.Jiro peered over the edge. “Great. Perfect. Classic impossible drop. Any other exit routes, Echo?”“Two,” Echo rep
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Chapter: CHAPTER 14b — THE DEAD ZONE The thing unfolding from the Core Casket did not have a shape and that was what made Ava’s mind split trying to comprehend it.It was a pattern, a fractal swarm of shifting geometry, rearranging itself faster than sight. It folded in and out of dimensions like it was testing which ones still fit.Echo drifted backward. “This is impossible. This predates every known system.”Jiro swallowed. “Looks like a glitch demon from a nightmare.”Ava shook her head. “No. It’s not a glitch.”The pattern pulsed, once, and the entire valley trembled in response. It wasn’t attacking. It was announcing itself. A voice, if it could be called that, hit all three of them at once. Not a sound. Not a thought. More like… a rewrite.“IDENTITIES DETECTED.UNAUTHORIZED.RECURSIVE FRAGMENT LOCATED.”Echo’s glow flickered violently. “It’s scanning us!”Jiro aimed his plasma rifle. “Yeah? Scan this.”“WAIT!” Ava hissed.Because she felt something. A tug. Pressure under her ribs. Like her DNA was being pulled to
Last Updated: 2025-12-08
Chapter: CHAPTER 14a — THE DEAD ZONEThe sky above Sector Null was the color of static, gray, twitching, unsettled. Nothing lived here. Nothing could live here. Not after what the Origin Pulse burned away.Ava felt it the moment the dropship crossed the boundary: A pressure. A silence. A wrongness.Like stepping into a room where someone had just died. Jiro swallowed hard beside her. “Sensors flatlined again.”“Again,” Echo murmured from the holo-sphere floating over Ava’s shoulder. “Not malfunction. Suppression field consistent. This zone cancels every form of signal except.”“the one we came here to find,” Ava finished.The Dead Zone. Where the first rift opened. Where the first ghosts were recorded. Where, according to the fragments they decoded, the Original Code was born.Ava stepped down onto the cracked earth. The ground was black, like melted glass, smooth in some places, jagged in others, as if frozen mid-explosion.A wind blew, but there was no sound. Even their footsteps were silent. Jiro looked uneasy. “It’s
Last Updated: 2025-12-08
Chapter: CHAPTER 13b — THE BREACH POINTThe corridor shook like something alive. Derrick barely had time to raise the book before the seal exploded a shockwave of shimmering code rolling out of it like a tsunami of blue light.Nova shielded her face. “Derrick! What did you DO?!”“I...I don’t know!” Derrick shouted back. “It just reacted!”The static-creatures , the Phantom hunters, froze mid-stride, caught in the pulse. Their forms flickered violently, arms tearing apart pixel by pixel, faces warping into glitching screams.Veil shouted inside Derrick’s skull: “Hold the book OPEN! The seal only works if you keep it active!”Derrick forced the trembling pages apart. “I’m trying!”The hunters spasmed, shrieking in corrupted audio. “O̴̜̚R̸͍̒Ĭ̷̭G̶̺͆Ì̴̝N̶͇̄ ̶͇͒K̵̫̀E̶̳͗Y̷̝̾”Their bodies shattered into cascading waves of digital shards, dissolving into nothing.Silence blew through the corridor like a cold wind.Nova lowered her weapon slowly. “…They’re gone.”Derrick collapsed backward against the wall, chest heaving. The boo
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Chapter: CHAPTER 13a — THE BREACH POINTThe silhouettes surged forward, distorted, glitching figures made of static, each movement sharp enough to slice the darkness. Derrick didn’t think. He ran.“MOVE!” Nova shouted, grabbing his arm and pulling him toward the far exit.The corridor lights sputtered erratically as the projections flashed behind them, phasing in and out of the concrete like ghosts learning how to hunt.“Veil!” Derrick yelled. “Tell me you’ve got a plan!”“I’m working on one,” Veil snapped. “And for the record, I usually prefer more than five seconds’ warning before we get murdered by digital phantoms.”Nova glanced back, breath sharp. “They’re getting closer!”Derrick risked a look. One of the shadows lunged through the wall, right in front of him.“DOWN!” Nova shoved him aside and fired three quick shots through its head. The bullets passed through harmlessly, embedding in the far wall.The shadow’s face rippled in static. No eyes. No mouth. Just a jagged distortion vibrating with hostile intent. It lunge
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Chapter: CHAPTER 12b — THE ORIGINAL CODE The recording crackled, glitching as though fighting its way through years of dust and forgotten circuits.Derrick’s throat tightened. “Dad… just say the name. Please.”But the voice of his father, calm, steady, too alive for a dead man, continued with a chilling precision:“It wasn’t a person who killed us. It was a system.”Nova stiffened immediately. “No. No, he didn’t activate that file. He couldn’t have.”Derrick shot her a glare. “What system?”The screen flickered, and his father’s recorded voice answered: “The Phantom Network.” Nova’s face drained of color.Derrick frowned. “What is that? Some kind of organization?”Nova’s voice came out tight. “Not an organization. A digital underworld. Invisible. Untouchable. No country owns it. No law can trace it. If your family got targeted by them… Derrick, that means.”The recording cut violently, a screech of static ripping through the room.Veil shouted in Derrick’s mind: “Step back! They’re trying to intercept the signal.”The screen
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