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The Crimean war is raging a world away from London. Martha Lackland, Abel Lackland’s daughter, astonishes her family and friends by announcing her intention to go to the Crimea to work amongst the British soldiers. After the initial shock, her family rally round to help her raise money for food and medicines. Once in Scutari, Martha meets Florence Nightingale. She also meets a surgeon – the dashing Alexander Laurence and love grows between them amidst the devastation of war.

The Crimean war is raging a world away from London. Martha Lackland, Abel Lackland’s daughter, astonishes her family and friends by announcing her intention to go to the Crimea to work amongst the British soldiers. After the initial shock, her family rally round to help her raise money for food and medicines. Once in Scutari, Martha meets Florence Nightingale. She also meets a surgeon – the dashing Alexander Laurence and love grows between them amidst the devastation of war.

Book Five of THE PERFORMERS Family Saga Abel Lackland and his family were more than startled when his quiet, spinster daughter Martha announces her intention of going to the Crimea to work among the British soldiers and their families. Money was needed for food and medicines, but the family soon rallies round. Thanks to Lydia - still queen of the Haymarket theatre, Oliver and his Supper Rooms and Gideon in the City - benefit nights and charity balls soon raise enough to send Martha to Scutari. There she not only encounters the indomitable Miss Nightingale, but also Alexander Laurence, a surgeon she had first met in a London ballroom but grows to love amidst the horrors of war.