The Plague Tales
Ann Benson 
Random House Publishing Group
<p><span>From Book 1:</span><span> It is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium—the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague.</span><br><br><span>In the year 1348, a disgraced Spanish physician crosses a landscape of horrors to Avignon, France. There, he will be sent on an impossible mission to England, to save the royal family from the Black Death....</span><br><br><span>Nearly seven hundred years later, a woman scientist digs up a clod of earth in London. In a world where medicine is tightly controlled, she will unearth a terror lying dormant for centuries.</span><br><br><span>From the primitive cures of the Middle Ages to the biological police state of our near future, </span><span>The Plague Tales</span><span> is a thrilling race against time and mass destruction. For in 2005, humankind's last hope for survival can come only from one place: out of a dark and tortured past.</span></p><p>Anthology containing:</p><br>
<p>The Plague Tales<br>The Burning Road<br>The Physician's Tale</p>