The year is 1910. Katherine Davis, M.D. is an intelligent, self-assured, and attractive woman whose confidence perfectly reflects the confidence of a new century overflowing with scientific, medical, and technological breakthroughs.
Without a moment’s hesitation, young Dr. Davis accepts the professional invitation of a lifetime when she travels to Chicago’s Hull-House to work with the celebrated … celebrated social reformer, Jane Addams. Katherine is an excellent doctor eager to make a difference in the world and the people around her, and Chicago’s crowded tenements with their burgeoning immigrant population offer just that opportunity.
Everything Katherine believes about right and wrong, about good and evil she learned from her parents and the secure childhood they gave her. But times have changed, and Katherine can no longer rely on the values of the past. She has outgrown that past and the home of her childhood seems outdated and old-fashioned compared to the progressive society around her. She’s an independent woman, who must make her own way and follow her own ideals.
When Katherine meets the dazzling Douglas Gallagher, a man as confident and as fearless as she, a successful man who has left his own past behind, an uncompromising-even ruthless-man, she is asked to choose between her past and her future. And the choice is so much more complicated than she expected! Because for Katherine, deciding where-and who-home really is will change her forever. And for good.
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a competent young doctor is nearly trapped by emotions when pursued but stands by her ethics and goals. Contrasts between the tenement dwellers of Chicago and the powerful industrialist whose wealth and compelling personality challenges the reader to examine ethics closer to home. Good if not entirely surprising resolution.
I enjoyed reading this book
I enjoyed the book. Good quick read.
Great story, beautifully written
I enjoyed this story about an independent, strong woman who lived her dream when it wasn’t a popular way of life for a female. Several characters of various types were woven into the story to add interest.
Historical fiction at its best, a story about a brave young woman, who not only went to college when few women did, but became a compassionate doctor.
This book did a nice job of combining enough historical reference to help give a sense of the struggles people endured during the time period as well as spinning an interesting tale.