Espionage. Medicine. Love.

Stories Written in Heartbeats & High Stakes

Travel the world. Face the unknown. Question the line between right and almost right. Dr. Savannah Dawson doesn’t just save lives, she walks into danger to understand them.

The Journey Starts Here

Savannah Dawson’s life in the ER was intense but predictable — until a friend convinced her to take a job abroad. What began as a change of pace pulled her into a world of espionage, moral conflict, and forbidden love.

Her journey unfolds across three thrillers — The Assignment, ReAssigned, and the upcoming UnAssigned — each pushing her to navigate the space between who she is and what the mission demands.

Featured Books

The Assignment

Dr. Savannah Dawson leaves behind the predictable rhythm of the ER for a mysterious assignment in Barcelona, one that promises meaning, purpose, and a second chance at feeling alive. Instead, she’s thrust into a covert world where medicine intersects with manipulation, loyalty is currency, and even saving a life can cost your own.

Release Date: March 1, 2024
Setting: Barcelona, Spain

ReAssigned

After Barcelona, Savannah knows the stakes. But nothing prepares her for Singapore, where a biological threat is quietly evolving, and the wrong decision could trigger global consequences. As she navigates a city built on precision and secrets, Savannah is forced to confront the limits of medicine, the ethics of power, and the danger of believing anyone has the full truth.

Release Date: November 8, 2024
Setting: Singapore

UnAssigned

Dr. Savannah Dawson works as a physician inside an overcrowded Cape Town prison, dreaming of the ocean while still tethered to Casper, the unseen CIA handler who controls her freedom. She and her friend Lacey attempt to extract a fellow operative, enlisting Charlee the lawyer and Karmen the IT mastermind to pull off the impossible. But when the mission reveals itself as a setup and the hunters become the hunted, the four must choose: disappear, or fight back.

Release Date: March 27, 2026
Setting: Cape Town, South Africa

The Assignment

Dr. Savannah Dawson leaves behind the predictable rhythm of the ER for a mysterious assignment in Barcelona,one that promises meaning, purpose, and a second chance at feeling alive. Instead, she’s thrust into a covert world where medicine intersects with manipulation, loyalty is currency, and even saving a life can cost your own.

Release Date: March 1, 2024
Setting: Barcelona, Spain

ReAssigned

After Barcelona, Savannah knows the stakes. But nothing prepares her for Singapore, where a biological threat is quietly evolving, and the wrong decision could trigger global consequences. As she navigates a city built on precision and secrets, Savannah is forced to confront the limits of medicine, the ethics of power, and the danger of believing anyone has the full truth.

Release Date: November 8, 2024
Setting: Singapore

UnAssigned

Dr. Savannah Dawson works as a physician inside an overcrowded Cape Town prison, dreaming of the ocean while still tethered to Casper, the unseen CIA handler who controls her freedom. She and her friend Lacey attempt to extract a fellow operative, enlisting Charlee the lawyer and Karmen the IT mastermind to pull off the impossible. But when the mission reveals itself as a setup and the hunters become the hunted, the four must choose: disappear, or fight back.

Coming Soon: Spring 2026
Setting: Cape Town, South Africa

What Drives the Journey

Savannah’s Missions Across the Globe

Every city tells a different story. From Barcelona’s dangerous cartels to Singapore’s global threats, Savannah’s assignments push her to the edge of love, loyalty, and survival.

Barcelona, Spain

Cartel empire. Forbidden love.

Singapore

Biological threat. Deadly precision.

Cape Town, South Africa

Global espionage. Hidden alliances.

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Shayla C. Freeman, MD

Shayla is an Emergency Medicine physician based in Charleston, South Carolina, though “based” is a loose term. Since completing her residency in Atlanta, she has spent the past decade working as a travel doctor, moving from state to state and hospital to hospital. Her work has carried her from California to Nevada to Florida, and through countless emergency departments in between. Medicine has also taken her far beyond U.S. borders. She has practiced in the Caribbean, Central America, Asia, and Africa, combining her love of travel with her commitment to care for people wherever they are.

Originally from Greenville, South Carolina, Shayla studied Journalism and Media Production at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That degree took her to New York and Los Angeles, where she worked in scripted television and film production before pursuing medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. After intensive Emergency Medicine training at Emory University Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital, she became a board-certified physician and carried her skills out into the wider world.

Despite years spent mastering the science of medicine, Shayla’s love for the arts never dimmed. Now, she’s intentionally making room for it again, nurturing the creative part of her brain through writing. The Dr. Dawson trilogy is just the start. Storytelling allows her to explore humanity in a different way, but with the same sincerity and depth she brings to patient care. She’s always believed that sometimes a listening ear can heal as powerfully as a prescription, and she channels that same authenticity into the characters and worlds she creates. Her hope is to bring these stories not only to the page, but eventually to the screen.


When she’s not working, writing, or traveling for medicine, you can find Shayla watching any Tar Heel sport, spending time by the ocean (or at least within view of water), or boarding a plane to chip away at her never-ending list of places to see. A bright spot in the midst of 2020 was meeting her husband, Cleve. Together they share two stepsons, a mini husky, and a large, loving family, both given and chosen.