It's 1888, and Rene Sakin, having tragically lost both parents, is expelled from a prestigious medical college for laudanum abuse. Facing ridicule from New York society and determined to move medicine into the 20th century, she heads west to a Tennessee mining town to seek out a mysterious healer--Charles Noble. After Charles restores a blind woman’s sight and saves a child from an incurable disease, Rene risks everything to learn Noble’s secret. Following a night of passion, Noble enlists Rene to help save lives on an Indian reservation while he eradicates typhus in a utopian town. United again, Charles and Rene race across the country to San Francisco, evading evil forces eager to steal Charles' closely guarded healing secret.
In this much anticipated, spellbinding sequel to Healer, Rene and Charles struggle against impossible odds to find each other.
Risking everything to be with her husband, Rene leaps into Charles’ arms as he is involuntarily swept forward five hundred years into the future. But something is terribly wrong. They are violently separated—Rene, back into her past and Charles, into his future. Unable to immediately return to the past due to a time machine malfunction, Charles agonizingly waits for repairs. Waiting weeks for Charles to return, Rene eventually accepts her loss and travels to Paris to be with her daughter, Rose.
Delighted to find Rose safe from the ravages of war-torn Paris, Rene joins Rose and Madame Marie Currie in medical research. But an accident condemns both Rose and Rene to a slow and agonizing death. Sailing home, they accept their fate and prepare to jump off the ship. But a mysterious stranger offers a bizarre proposal, one that may or may not save them.
Will Charles reach Rose and Rene in time to save them with his futuristic healing technology? Will the stranger’s proposal succeed in possibly uniting them with Charles? The Search for Dr. Noble is a genre-bending historical romance that will take you on an elliptical nail-biting journey through time and across oceans and continents.