Amanda Skenandore

Puede la vida en la calle prepararte para el duro trabajo en las salas de un hospital? Nueva York, años 1880. Una creció en los barrios marginales de...

Los Angeles, 1920s: Socialite Mirielle West is the picture of health, except for the small patch of pale skin on the back of her hand. Her doctor insists on more tests, and Mirielle reluctantly agrees. The diagnosis - leprosy - is devastating and unthinkable....

"The dead can't hurt you. Only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies....

Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn't touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son.