The Betrayal Clinic

Betrayal… Not one family boat has shattered on this reef. But let’s not forget: Voronova’s heroes are doctors, and their calling is to heal—even emotional wounds. They know where saving love is possible with therapy, and where surgical intervention is necessary…

Maria Voronova (a pen name) was born in 1972 in Leningrad. From early childhood she dreamed of becoming a doctor. She entered the First Medical Institute, which she graduated from in 1995; then came graduate school and a candidate dissertation.
Voronova is a surgeon. Over the years of surgical practice she has operated on an enormous number of patients, developed her own technique for several operations, and wrote more than 20 scientific works. She taught at the Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (MAPO).
The start of Voronova’s independent work coincided with healthcare reforms that dismantled the remnants of Soviet medicine. Everything she writes about is truly something she has suffered through herself. The situations her characters—professor-surgeons, anesthesiologists, and operating-room nurses—encounter are taken straight from real life.
Maria lives in Peterhof, repeatedly sung as the “city of fountains.” She loves walking with her daughter in the parks of Peterhof, but that doesn’t happen often. Her daughter seriously studies music, while Maria, in her free time, writes novels. She has no time for other hobbies—ice skating in winter and gathering mushrooms in autumn.