Books like Toward the Sunrising (Cheney Duvall, M.D. #4) by Lynn Morris
Cheney Duvall, a young doctor, and her nurse Shiloh Irons travel from New York to Charleston, South Carolina, hoping for a brief stay. What begins as a journey turns into a struggle against a conservative hospital administrator who refuses to recognize Cheney’s credentials and embraces old‑school, harmful medical practices. Meanwhile Shiloh uncovers a scheme involving a powerful Charleston businessman and potential theft from Cheney’s father, Richard Duvall. As political and social tensions heighten during Reconstruction, the pair become entangled with the emerging Knights of the White Rose, a white‑supremacist fraternal order, putting their safety and convictions at risk.
First publish date: 1996
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Lynn Morris
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