Chaulmoogra

A single pale patch on her forearm costs Lillian Sheppard everything—her classroom, her fiancé, her name. Branded a leper in 1911 Boston, she is spirited away to a fog-shrouded island colony where the exiled learn to build lives the mainland has already declared over. But when a ruthless health commissioner moves to erase the colony entirely, Lily discovers secrets in its records that could shake the state—if she can survive long enough to speak. A story of stolen children, forbidden love, and the fierce refusal to disappear.