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In her second historical novel, Frances Ward turns to a new subject: the nineteenth-century origin of a School of Nursing at Harvard. What, she wonders, would have happened at a critical moment in American history if healthcare had been envisioned as something other than disease management? And what would have happened had nursing led the way to a new future in which health maintenance and disease prevention were at the center of the nation’s fastest growing industry? Emerging from the ashes of Civil War, the United States was fast immersing into a gilded age, with hospitals a shining ...

As her father describes her, Emily Hart is, by turns, fiercely independent, curious, adventuresome, aloof, delicate—and, running through it all, deeply intelligent, often ruthlessly so. When Germany invades Poland in 1939, she realizes that match had finally been struck and war would soon begin.