When young Leo, barely seven years old, is struck by a venomous snakebite, his frantic mother, Clara, races him to St. Jude's Hospital. Her hope rests on her estranged older son, Dr. Julian Thorne, a brilliant but tormented surgeon, to save his brother's life. But the sterile halls of the hospital harbor secrets, and Julian's enigmatic fiancée, Vivienne, seems to possess an unnatural, unsettling interest in Leo's condition – an interest that chills Clara to the bone and threatens to unravel a family's buried past.

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