Benson, Ann

Sequel to The Plague Tales. Interweaves the stories of Alejandro Canches, a fourteenth-century physician who is struggling to reach safety with his foster daughter in the aftermath of France's loss to Britain, and Janie Crowe, a surgeon who is enlisted in 2007 to unlock the secret of a debilitating genetic disease.

A novel spanning two worlds caught in the midst of a horrific crisis ranges from a fourteenth-century Europe devastated by the Black Death to a near-future world in which survivors of a deadly plague struggle to rebuild the broken bonds of civilization.

Interweaves the stories of Alejandro Canches, a fourteenth-century physician who is struggling to reach safety with his foster daughter in the aftermath of France's loss to Britain, and Janie Crowe, a surgeon who is enlisted in 2007 to unlock the secret of a debilitating genetic disease.

Tells the parallel stories of Alejandro Canches, a fourteenth-century physician who is conscripted against his will to serve as a plague doctor in the court of Edward III, and Janie Crowe, an American medical archaeologist who unwittingly releases the bubonic plague upon the world in 2005 while doing research in England.

Photographs and step-by-step instructions demonstrate how to complete eighteen different beading projects.