Author: Wilkie Collins

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 142705066X

Mercy, a nurse in the Franco-Prussian War, has her post taken over by the Germans. Mercy meets the emergency with great skill and aplomb, comforting the wounded soldiers and ensuring their safe passage. Her bravery is set in opposition to the cowardly surgeon and a timid English gentlewoman on her way to England to claim an inheritance from relatives who have never before met her.