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Yellow Fever Revenge
by Jackie Ross Flaum
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Plague of Biblical proportions
When yellow fever rumors arise in 1878, Elizabeth McAlister knows how bad it can be — black vomit, raging fevers, thrashing victims wild with pain. She survived in 1867 when two thousand others did not.
But the ring of shop bell announces a threat more terrifying than yellow fever for her. Barkley Mills, the brutal man who raped her and fathered her son, is now living in Memphis. He will surely recognize himself in their boy’s face.
As the fever devastates towns in a steady march up the Mississippi River to Memphis, Elizabeth plots revenge—and finds love.
A Word from the Author
In this time of COVID-19 pandemic, a Southern woman fighting for her child in 1878 Memphis becomes a heroine who touches us today.
With the specter of yellow fever looming, Elizabeth McAlister learns that her rapist and the father of her son is in town. She vows to kill him.
But the unfolding tragedy of the city sucks her in. Twenty-five thousand people flee and seventeen thousand sicken. Elizabeth works with overwhelmed doctors. In a frightening turn, her lover becomes a patient.
When she is called to her rapist’s home, she must decide: can she really cause another death?
(Jackie Ross Flaum, April 2020)