By the Light of Embers

It's 1954, and twenty-two-year-old Lucia Lafleur has always dreamed of following in her father's footsteps. While sock hops and poodle skirts occupy her classmates, she dreams of bacteria and broken bones-and the day she'll finally fix them.¿After graduation, a letter arrives, and Lucia reads the words she's labored a lifetime to earn-"we are pleased to offer you a position at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine." But in the midst of her triumph, her fiancé delivers a crushing ulti...