From acclaimedUSA Todaybestselling 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, shes 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. Its 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. Shell 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 shell make it through, though, is up to fate.