Inspired by the true story of the World War I American Women's
Hospital, Mercy Road is a novel about love, courage, and a female
ambulance driver who risks everything.
In 1917, after Arlene Favier's home burns to the ground, taking her
father with it, she must find a way to support her mother and younger
brother. If she doesn't succeed, they will all be impoverished. Job
opportunities are scarce, but then a daring possibility arises: the
American Women's Hospital needs ambulance drivers to join a
trailblazing, all-female team of doctors and nurses bound for war-torn
France.
On the front lines, Arlene and her fellow ambulance drivers work day and
night to aid injured soldiers and civilians. In between dangerous
ambulance runs, Arlene reunites with a childhood friend, Jimmy Tucker,
now a soldier, who opens her heart like no one before. But she has also
caught the attention of Felix Brohammer, a charismatic army captain who
harbors a dark, treacherous secret.
To expose Brohammer means risking her family's future and the promise of
love. Arlene must make a choice: stay in the safety of silence or take
the greatest chance of her life.
