Poetic, romantic, and steeped in seventeenth-century London, The Phoenix Bride is historical fiction at its best.Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentlemans Guide to Vice and Virtue
A passionate tale of plague, fire, and forbidden love from the acclaimed author of Solomons Crown
It is 1666, one year after plague has devastated England. Young widow Cecilia Thorowgood is a prisoner, trapped and isolated within her older sisters cavernous London townhouse. At the mercy of a legion of doctors trying to cure her grief with their impatient scalpels, Cecilia shows no sign of improvement. Soon, her sister makes a decision born of desperation: She hires a new physician, someone known for more unusual methods. But he is a foreigner. A Jew. And despite his attempts to save Cecilia, he knows he cannot quell the storm of sorrow that rages inside her. There is no...