In this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events?? Kim van Alkemade tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish orphanage years before.

In 1919?? Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City??s Lower Eastside. When tragedy strikes?? Rachel is separated from her brother Sam and sent to a Jewish orphanage where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research. Subjected to X-ray treatments that leave her disfigured?? Rachel suffers years of cruel harassment from the other orphans. But when she turns fifteen?? she runs away