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World War I is raging in Europe. Nephi Erickson feels he has failed his wife and small daughter, Katie. Enlisting in the Marines is not only his duty, but his best chance at making some much-needed money. With her husband half a world away, Alaina derives some solace from the fact that her younger sister, Eleanor, lives nearby. Eleanor is the only woman studying medicine at the University of Utah and is soon immersed in researching treatments for the influenza pandemic that is ravaging the world, a scourge that will soon touch her life all too closely.