A biography of the first woman doctor written as if she herself were relating her struggles to become a physician and open the field of medicine to women.
While spending the summer in an old Massachusetts house, an 18-year-old girl and her niece become increasingly aware of the presence of a spirit that seems determined to harm them.
An eighteen-year-old English girl finds her loyalties divided and all her resources tested as she and her friends experience the terrible physical and emotional hardships of the forty-seven day siege of Vicksburg in the spring of 1863.
During the winter of 1692, when the young girls of Salem suddenly find themselves subject to fits of screaming and strange visions, some believe that they have seen the devil and are the victims of witches.