Beyond the Ashes

Where better to rebuild and face ones fears than in 1906 San Francisco a city rising from the ashes? Ruby Marshall a young widow is certain shell discover new purpose assisting her brother Robert with his cancer research but she doesnt anticipate finding new love.Dr. Gerald Larkspur dreams of filling his empty home with family but hed always hoped it would be a wife and children. In the aftermath of the great earthquake the rooms are overflowing with extended family and friends left homeless by the disaster. When Roberts widowed sister arrives the close quarters seem close indeed.Ruby and Geralds fledgling romance is put at risk when Gerald develops symptoms of the very disease theyre striving to cure. Together they must askis it worth a second chance at love when time might be short?