PREVIOUSLY IN GRAVEYARD SHIFT ACADEMY

Five children of night-shift workers discovered the Graveyard Shift Academy, an underground school beneath the old shipping yard. After graduating together, they became teachers for a new class of students. In Book Two, Miles Abram uncovered the Deep Engine, confronted the Graveyard of Machines, and led the crew to a port commission hearing after his father was injured by a deferred maintenance failure. A new student, Leo Trujillo, joined the Academy. Miles became the Engine Room's keeper.

This is Esperanza's story.

Beneath the old shipping yard, past the classrooms where the children of essential workers learn the trades their parents built their lives on, there is a door most students never find. Behind it lies the Deep Ward - a hidden hospital powered by the Body of Labor, where every injury a worker ever carried is remembered, catalogued, and tended.

Book Three: The Healing Ward

When Esperanza follows a glowing stethoscope into the Ward, she learns she is the kind of healer the Academy has been waiting for. But healing has a cost. As her friend Sofia reaches a breaking point and a paramedic's daughter named Nia Jackson arrives with questions of her own, Esperanza must decide what it truly means to care for the people who care for everyone else.

Book Three of the Graveyard Shift Academy series: a story about medicine and mercy, about the workers who patch up a city in the dark, and about the promise written into the Healer's Manifesto.

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GRAVEYARD SHIFT ACADEMY The Healing Ward

S Scott Jr writes from the Bay Area about working people and the places that raise them. He has been living a new life since 2011.

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