A Professional Woman (CH)

From the author of BROKEN THREADS and THE FINAL PATTERN. Exiled to Philadelphia in 1906, sixteen-year-old Christina Holt is determined to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. Even motherhood is sacrificed for her advancing career. Posted to Serbia in the Great War, courageous nationalist Laurenz Varikiav attracts her admiration and affection, but the progress of the war forces them to part and Christina takes refuge in her beloved medicine. She makes reparation for abandoning her own baby by working in child psychiatry, which forces her into a dilemma that can only be solved by damaging those she loves most.