City of Dreams A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan

In 1661 a brother and sister stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven perilous weeks at sea to seek a new life in the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam. Lucas Turner is a barber surgeon; Sally Turner an apothecary. Both gifted healers, they are bound to each other by blood and necessity, but as their new lives unfold betrayal and murder make them deadly enemies. Their descendants dedicated physicians and surgeons, pirates and whoremasters will shape the future of medicine and the growing city of Manhattan, but none can escape a vengeful legacy.CITY OF DREAMS charts the destiny of the Turner and the Devreys families one English, one Dutch against the backdrop of a city where black slaves are burned alive on Wall Street, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams walk the Broad Way arguing America's destiny, and one of the greatest hospitals in the world will be born in a former shipwright's workshops by the East River.