The Girl in His Shadow: A Novel Children's Greek & Roman Tales & Myths

The Girl in His Shadow: A Novel Children's Greek & Roman Tales & MythsTHE USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "An exquisitely detailed journey through the harrowing field of medicine in mid 19th century London."Tracey Enerson Wood, USA Today bestselling author of The Engineer's Wife and The War Nurse An unforgettable historical fiction novel about one woman who believed in scientific medicine before the world believed in her. London, 1845: Raised by the eccentric surgeon Dr. Horace Croft after losing her parents to a deadly pandemic,

This time he might lose even more

She's not just the girl next door or his mother's best friend's daughter

not as her mother

the black market and gold

he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among writers in English

she will have to risk everything to uncover the cost of this miraculous technology

this life and the next

Jarty LeFleur

Tori finally has everything she thought she wanted—a loving family and a successful career—but trying to live a normal life in Hollywood is a little weird

can persevere

they start putting together the pieces of their father's past—and uncover a family secret that changes everything

from the lucid prose to the sensitively treated characters to their beautiful and heartbreaking stories