From acclaimed USA Today bestselling author Audrey Blake comes the story of Nora Beady, a newly graduated physician who must return to London to takeover the family practice, and while facing the prejudice of society, fight against an invisible enemy before it's too late.
 
19th Century. Dr. Nora Beady is the only female surgeon in London. In England, even. From surviving a cholera epidemic as a child to overcoming prejudice and carving out a place for herself in a male-dominated field, she’s finally earned her peace as an attending physician at the Great Queen Street Charity Clinic, alongside her newly wed husband and her eccentric but ailing adoptive father, the great Dr. Horace Croft. 
But the prejudice that Nora faces as a female surgeon is only the beginning of her troubles now. A far greater enemy makes itself known: the deadliest cholera epidemic in over a century. It’s a swift disease that wreaks havoc and tragedy across the city, particularly in the working classes. And as the people around Nora each start to fall, she finds that, as a survivor, she is far less susceptible to this new, deadly spread. She’ll have to stand alone and do all she can to hold back the tide of the disease and maintain her oath: to save lives. Whether she’ll make it through, though, is up to fate.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
AUDREY BLAKE has a split personality— because she is the creative alter ego of Regina Sirois and Jaima Fixsen, two authors who met online in a survivor-style writing contest. They live 1500 miles apart, but both are prairie girls: Jaima hails from Alberta, Canada, and Regina from the wheatfields of Kansas. Both are addicted to history, words, and stories of redoubtable women, and agree that their friendship, better and longer lasting than any other prize, is proof that good things happen in this random, crazy universe.