Filthy Rich Fae

Cate Holloway is a 24-year-old emergency room nurse working the night shift at Gage Memorial hospital in New Orleans. Her charge nurse, Haley, discusses the number of deaths they have seen in the ER from the city’s trinity drug epidemic. Cate recalls that when she was younger, they called the same drug “clover,” and it was harmless and carried no risk of addiction. However, the criminal Gage family, which disperses the drug on the streets, changed the formula—Cate guesses they were fueled by greed—and the new version, trinity, is lethal. Cate angrily says that the Gages need to be imprisoned for their actions, but Haley reminds her that they are too powerful: They run everything in the city, including the hospital.

A trauma alert interrupts them, announcing two gunshot victims. Dr. Garcia, the attending physician and Cate’s boss, steers Cate away from the first victim, though Cate spots his oddly pointed ears. However, she is horrified to see that the second victim is her foster brother, Channing. Cate, an orphan, was raised by her foster mother, Gran, and before Gran died, Cate and Channing promised her they would take care of each other and avoid the Gages.

Channing has been shot in the shoulder with a custom Gage bullet.