Suicide Med

At a medical school known by a grim nickname — every year, one student there dies — a new class of first-years arrives carrying their own ambitions, secrets, and breaking points. Heather McKinley is among them, navigating brutal coursework, cadaver labs, and the suffocating pressure of a program that seems built to crush its weakest.

The story moves through several students in turn, each narrating a stretch of the academic year and exposing the rivalries, affairs, and quiet desperation festering beneath the institution’s prestige.

As the months grind on, it becomes clear the school’s deadly reputation is no coincidence, and that one member of this class will not live to see the end of the year.

Told in overlapping perspectives that slowly lock together, it builds dread out of academic ambition and the lengths people will go to protect what they have sacrificed everything to earn.