1918. Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone streets. Pauline Bright and her husband hope to give their three daughters-- Evelyn, Maggie, and Willa-- a chance at a better life. But just months after they arrive, the Spanish Flu pandemic claims more than twelve thousand victims in their adopted city, and the Brights find themselves...

In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and desperate survivors wear white masks to ward off illness....

While contending with wounded soldiers and influenza patients, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford stumbles upon the body of an officer and family friend who has been murdered, and uses her father's connections in the military to search for an elusive killer.

In 1918 New Orleans, seventeen-year-old Gianna Crutti's worries about her family's grocery, the Great War, and influenza are overshadowed when a murderer returns to terrorize the city--years after he attacked Gianna's parents and left her with a psychic connection between them.

If any place on God's earth was designed to help one heal, it is Meadowland. At her brother-in-law's Kentucky farm, Rose Meadows and her daughters can recover: the loss of her husband during the 1918 influenza epidemic; her stay at a sanatorium for tuberculosis; and the girls' experiences at an orphanage during her illness. Dirk Meadows keeps his heart closed: he was badly scarred by a fire and abandoned by the woman he loved. Will his visitors unlock...

When his cousin is killed while attending a family moonshine still, Jesse Sutherlin's investigation into the crime is hampered by his family, a girl who insists he get away before he gets killed, and the local sheriff, who arrests him for the murder.