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The Irish Midlands, 1862 - a young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O'Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. Is the village harbouring a saint 'surviving on manna from heaven' or are there more ominous motives at work?
Set in the summer of 1876 in San Francisco in the grip of a record-breaking heatwave, a smallpox epidemic spreads through the city, along with festering racism and fear. In order to bring the murderer to justice of her friend, a French burlesque dancer, must risk everything to piece together all the fragments of her friend's life.