The Beacon at Alexandria

Gillian Bradshaw. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $17.95 (376pp) ISBN 978-0-395-41159-9

marriage and the resumption of her medical career. Steeped in well-researched historical detail and local color that recreates the last days of the Roman Empire in several regions of the antique world, this is an action-filled, if predictable romantic adventure by the author of In Winter's Shadow. (September 12)

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