Where the Light Enters

From the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati’s highly anticipated new novel, an enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York and the transformative power of bravery and love….

Dr. Sophie Savard, obstetrician and proud daughter of free people of color, returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan’s Washington Square Park in the early spring of 1884 to resume her life after the death of her husband and childhood love. Awaiting her is her dearest friend, her cousin and fellow physician Dr. Anna Savard–and a city whose starved, desperate pleas go unanswered, forsaken by Lady Liberty’s cold copper gaze, drowned out by the dazzling splendor of New York’s Gilded Age.

Life has changed for Anna since Sophie left. She’s now a married woman, her heart full of love for her husband and the orphaned children they’ve welcomed into the family. She embraces the happiness and challenges that come with her new identity as a wife and a caregiver while continuing to heal and aid the disadvantaged women society would rather forget.

But not everyone wants mercy and light shed on the plight of the fairer sex, and as Sophie sets out to construct a new life for herself, she and Anna find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Unable to ignore the anguished cries of New York’s less fortunate, these intrepid cousins will risk everything to serve their city and protect their patients.