Midwife of the Burning City

Flames swallow London street by street, and midwife Margery Whitcombe has a woman in labor, a dwindling band of refugees, and no safe ground left. Widowed, sharp-tongued, and stubbornly resourceful, she must navigate a city collapsing into ash and panic—outwitting desperate men who see opportunity in catastrophe and officials too proud to act. With St. Paul's Cathedral glowing on the horizon, every route she chooses is a wager measured in lives.