What will Anna and Sophie ultimately do? Check out this book to see the full cast of characters and see how their story plays out and read the novel that others are calling “captivating” and “emotionally gripping”. Cornstock is a radical individual that considers himself to be the personal enemy of all things indecent, and he sees a lot of things that indecent. She and Anna are somehow led by this situation into the path of a very dangerous man. When a young mother in desperate need of help forces the obstetrician to face the oath she took to become a doctor, she doesn’t know what to do. Meanwhile, Sophie faces her own obstacles. When Anna comes across four kids as a result of her work and finds out that they’ve lost everything– just like her– she’s faced with a choice about what to do to help these vulnerable children. Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie have graduated from medical school for women, and they’re treating the people of the city. So much is happening and the city is being built up with changes happening in the form of the nearly-complete Brooklyn Bridge and so much more. This novel is set in 1883 and it focuses on NYC in a time of poverty, change, and splendor. Both female doctors living in New York in the nineteenth century, this story focuses on the power of love and courage and how it can transcend many of life’s obstacles. It is an epic fictional novel that focuses on the two main characters. This book marks the first book released under this name in six years. This was followed by Fire Along the Sky in 2004, Queen of Swords in 2009, and the release of the sixth novel in the Wilderness series three years after that with The Endless Forest.ĭonati is also the writer of the standalone fiction novel, The Gilded Hour.

Sara Donati came out with four more books in the series, that continued on with the dynamic release of the third Wilderness novel, Lake in the Clouds. With such a good reception, Donati began writing the sequel and the follow-up novel came out in 2000.

It is titled Into the Wilderness and was released in 1998. The debut novel in the series was also the first ever published under her pen name.

Her family consists of her loving husband, their daughter, and a variety of pets.ĭonati is the author of the Wilderness series. She is also a best-selling author perhaps best known for her exciting Wilderness series of novels.Īn authentic native of Chicago, Sara Donati (or Rosina Lippi) lives with her family somewhere in between the area of Bellingham Bay as well as the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest. It is also the pen name of Rosina Lippi, who uses the name Donati for her novels. Sara Donati is an American author of fiction.

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