1665. The Black Death has returned with a vengeance, threatening to eradicate the human race and finish what it started three centuries prior. George, the uneducated son of an apothecarist, is thrust into the role of a plague doctor for the most deprived parish in the kingdom’s capital city—St Marnock. Aided by meticulous accounts recorded within his journal, his journey is one of great peril and trepidation, and fully explores the trauma and psychological distress that would have been faced daily by plague doctors during this infamous period of history.
As George races against time to discover a cure for the pestilence, the harrowing stories of his patients are unearthed, and the myriad of secrets buried within the decaying walls of the parish are exposed.
Will he turn the tide of fate, or follow his patients into a mass grave, becoming just another statistic in the Bills of Mortality?