The Phoenix Bride

ΓÇ£Poetic,romanticand steeped in seventeenth-century LondonThe Phoenix Bride is historical fiction at its best.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöMackenzi LeeNew York Times bestselling author of The GentlemanΓÇÖs Guide to Vice and Virtue A passionate tale of plaguefireand forbidden love from the acclaimed author of SolomonΓÇÖs Crown It is 1666one year after plague has devastated England. Young widow Cecilia Thorowgood is a prisonertrapped and isolated within her older sisterΓÇÖs cavernous London townhouse. At the mercy of a legion of doctors trying to cure her grief with their impatient scalpelsCecilia shows no sign of improvement. Soonher sister makes a decision born of desperation: She hires a new physiciansomeone known for more unusual methods. But he is a foreigner. A Jew. And despite his attempts to save Ceciliahe knows he cannot quell the storm of sorrow that rages inside her. There is no easy cure for melancholy. David Mendes fled Portugal to seek a new life in Londonwhere he could practice his faith openly and leave the past behind. Still reeling from the loss of his beloved friend and struggling with his religion and his pastDavid is free and safe in this foreign land but incapable of happiness. The security he has found in London threatens to disappear when he meets Ceciliaand he finds himself torn between his duty to medicine and the beating of his own heart. He is the only one who can see her pain; the glimmers of light she emitseven in her gloomare enough to make him believe once more in love. Facing seemingly insurmountable challengesDavid and Cecilia must endure prejudiceheartbreakand calamity before they can be together. The Great Fire is comingΓÇöand with the city in flames around themlove has never felt so impossible.