[Alexandra Destephano 01] • Chaos at Crescent City Medical Center · the Alexandra Destephano Medical Thriller Series

It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans and thousands of tourists have flocked the city, paralyzing traffic and jamming the French Quarter with drunks and garbage. City officials are hoping for record crowds and the greatest economic boost since Hurricane Katrina. Alexandra Destephano, a nurse and legal counsel for the prestigious Crescent City Medical Center, is eagerly anticipating her third Carnival Season and her Saturday night date with dashing art historian Mitch Landry to the Endymion Extravaganza, the biggest Mardi Gras Ball in New Orleans. However, things change when Alex is stat-paged to the medical center, where she learns from her former husband, hospital surgeon Robert Bonnet that the first lady of Louisiana has been found unconscious in her bed covered in blood