Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life. Annas work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. The year is 1883, and in New York City, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie-both graduates of the Womans Medical School-treat the citys most vulnerable, even if doing so puts everything theyve strived for in jeopardy. Book Synopsis The international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters presents a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York. For Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with the oath she took as a doctor-and thrusts her and Anna into the orbit of Anthony Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him.-Provided by publisher. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie both graduates of the Woman s Medical School treat the citys most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything theyve strived forin jeopardy. About the Book The year is 1883, and in New York City, its a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change.

The gilded hour by sara donati