The Physician's Tale

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Sweeping us from plague-ravaged Europe to the terrifying near future, acclaimed author Ann Benson brings two eras brilliantly to life. The Physician's Tale is a spellbinding saga of two healers separated by six centuries, both facing terror and trials, bound together by history, science, and destiny.In the near future, in the hills of the American Northeast, a group of men, women, and children band together for survival against nature and human enemies, huddling in the only corner of the world they know. Among these people is Janie Crowe, a physician whose son is her greatest hope and deepest secret. Etched into Janie's memory is the ancient journal of a Jewish man of medicine--a man who fought for survival in his own age of plague.In Europe, in the age of the Black Death, Alejandro Canches must hide his identity--and break his oath as a physician for the sake of his and his loved ones' lives. As France and England are locked in war, and disease lays waste to...