What happens when doing the right thing could cost you everything?Kristi Jacobs is no stranger to life-and-death decisions. As an ER nurse, she's seen the best and worst of humanity-but nothing could prepare her for the fallout from one impossible choice. When a terminally ill patient whispers a final request that crosses every legal line, Kristi answers... and it changes everything.Now thrust into a storm of legal scrutiny, media frenzy, and moral backlash, Kristi must navigate a system that punishes compassion and rewards silence. Torn between loyalty, ethics, and self-preservation, she becomes the reluctant center of a national debate on mercy and murder.Critical Mercy is a gripping medical ethics drama that explores the gray space between law and medicine, where one act of humanity becomes a crime-and every decision has a cost.