Sara Donati

The Gilded Hour Sara Donati

Publisher Marketing: The internationally bestselling author of "Into the Wilderness "makes her highly anticipated return with a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York and the transcendent power of courage and love. The year is 1883, and in New York City it s a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. 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 city s most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they ve strived for in jeopardy. Anna s work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. 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. 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 Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him. With its vivid depictions of old New York and its enormously appealing characters, "The Gilded Hour" is a captivating, emotionally gripping novel that proves Sara Donati is an author at the height of her powers." Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2015 (EAN 9780425271810, Hardcover) Romantic Times 09/01/2015 pg. 32 (EAN 9780425271810, Hardcover) Booklist 08/01/2015 pg. 39 (EAN 9780425271810, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Contributor Bio:  Donati, Sara Sara Donati, pen name of Rosina Lippi, is the internationally bestselling author of the Wilderness series, which includes "Into the Wilderness", "The Endless Forest", "Queen of Swords", "Fire along the Sky", "Lake in the Clouds", and "Dawn on a Distant Shore". "The Gilded Hour" follows the story of the descendants of the characters from the Wilderness series. Contributor Bio:  Campbell, Cassandra Actress and director Cassandra Campbell has narrated nearly two hundred audiobooks and has received multiple Audie Awards and more than twenty "AudioFile" Earphones Awards, including for "Orange Is the New Black" by Piper Kerman.