THE BLACK DEATH

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About THE BLACK DEATH

1665: Pestilence reigns. The bells toll for the dying. The Black Death has returned with a vengeance, threatening to eradicate the human race and finish what it started three centuries prior. One man stands to defy it. The line between doctor and executioner has never been thinner. 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, the tale of 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 poverty-stricken patients are unearthed, and the myriad of secrets buried within the decaying walls of the parish are exposed. Behind every mask is a man haunted by the lives he couldn’t save. With the darkness seeping deeper into the depths of his own mind, will he be able to turn the tide of fate and provide his patients with more than just false hope and borrowed time, or will he follow them into a mass grave, becoming just another statistic in the Bills of Mortality? A haunting exploration of tragedy, sacrifice, and the human will to endure during one of history’s darkest chapters.

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