Janet Alexander

Three young girls from Kenya's Highlands, all with different backgrounds, become blood sisters, promising that nothing will ever come between them. On growing up their lives are changed by families and distance.   Book 1 of series.

It is the late 18th century and discoveries are being made in medical areas such as vaccination and the spread of infection. Alec Gordon returns to Scotland to take the post of Physician to the Aberdeen Dispensary. He has plans to modernise the medical practices when a mysterious disease hits the town, attacking and killing every newly delivered mother.

When Germany invaded Poland their bombers devastated Warsaw - and its zoo. Caring for the few surviving animals, zookeepers Jan and Antonia Zabinski started their own war against the Nazis. Not only did they rescue Jews from the Ghetto, but they hid resistance fighters, arms and ammunition in the empty animal cages.