The Fever Road

A rattlesnake bite and a dead brother teach seventeen-year-old Nate Carrow that the medicine he was raised to trust can kill as surely as any venom. Saved by a Chinese physician in the Sierra Nevada goldfields of 1852, Nate inherits a forbidden education and a jade-clasped casebook containing secrets that could halt the epidemics ravaging southern China. But with a murder warrant at his back and civil war ahead, delivering the book means crossing an ocean, earning the trust of people who see him as a thief, and proving that healing matters more than the color of the hands that do it.