In the shadow of the lamp: a novel of Florence Nightingale

It's 1854 and sixteen-year-old Molly would give anything to change her circumstances as a lowly servant in a posh London house. So when she hears of an opportunity to join the nurses who will be traveling with Florence Nightingale to the Crimea, she jumps at the chance. The work is grueling, the hospital conditions deplorable, and Miss Nightingale a demanding teacher. Before long, the plight of British soldiers becomes more than just a mission of mercy as Molly finds that she's falling in love with both a dashing young doctor and a soldier who has joined the army to be near her. But with the battle raging ever nearer, can Molly keep the two men she cares for from harm? A love story to savor, and a fascinating behind-the-scenes imagining of the woman who became known as "the lady with the lamp." When sixteen-year-old Molly Fraser hears of an opportunity to escape her work as a lowly servant and join Florence Nightingale and her nurses on the battlefield, she jumps at the chance. The work is grueling, the hospital conditions are deplorable, and Miss Nightingale is a demanding teacher. But before long, the plight of the soldiers becomes more than just a mission of mercy as Molly find that she's falling in love with two men. With the battle raging ever nearer, one of the men will fall victim to the great guns. Will it be the dashing young doctor who sees her as more than just one of Nightingale's nurses or the soldier who left everything behind and joined the army to be near her? Sixteen-year-old Molly Fraser works as a nurse with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War to earn a salary to help her family survive in nineteenth-century England.