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    "description": "1918. Twenty-year-old Emily Burdon has been training as a nurse in London, learning on the job as she tends to patients from the crowded poorhouses that ring the hospital as well as wounded soldiers returning from the war. She pours her heart into her nursing while she waits for happier times \u2013 peace in Europe and the return of her childhood sweetheart Lewis from the Western Front.\n\nBut when the deadly Spanish Flu arrives in London on the heels of the war, Emily\u2019s faith and courage are put to the test. All around her men and women in the prime of their lives are wasting away, and until a cure is found there is nothing for Emily and her colleagues to do except make them comfortable, treat them as best they can\u2026 and, eventually, ease the pain of their passing.\n\nBut then Lewis catches the deadly flu himself on his way back home, just as a new doctor is transferred to head up Emily\u2019s ward. From the distant land of Prince Edward Island in Canada, Dr James Cantor is the first of a generations-old farming family to have left the island, and wartime London feels a long way away from the rugged beauty of his homeland. But despite their differences, he and Emily find common ground in their passion for helping patients and stopping the spread of the disease. But with life forever changed around her and Lewis\u2019 future hanging by a thread, can Emily survive the most terrible epidemic in the history with her life \u2013 and heart \u2013 intact?",
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