She gave up everything --- and changed the world. From the bestselling author of MRS. POE comes a riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic.

From Lynn Cullen, the bestselling author of MRS. POE and TWAIN'S END, comes a powerful novel set in the Midwest during the Great Depression, about two sisters bound together by love, duty and pain.

Now in trade paperback, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed author of MRS. POE comes a fictionalized imagining of the fraught relationship between one of America's most iconic figures --- Mark Twain --- and his close personal secretary, Isabel Lyon, who became a silenced woman until now with Lynn Cullen's fascinating new novel.

The compelling national bestseller in the tradition of THE PARIS WIFE, about a woman who becomes entangled in an affair with Edgar Allan Poe, played out against the atmospheric backdrop of 1840s New York City.