Gail Nightingale is a ghost. She has lived since the days before the battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. Gail was a nurse. She was caring for the wounded soldiers. Gail was just like Florence Nightingale. There was a coughing sickness that was spreading across the land. Gail Nightingale joins a group of healing women to cure the plague. Gail Nightingale was there to hear Abraham Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves. Gail was like a bird that needed to be set free from the cage of her mortal body.
Gail Nightingale falls in love with a wounded soldier named Williamson Blacksmith. Then, Gail journeys through time. She endures the struggles of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. She is a conductor on the underground railroad. Gail is an abolitionist along with Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. She also meets Frederick Douglass in New York. Gail then hovers through the post-Civil War reconstruction. She find herself in the industrial revolution.
Her brother Robert Nightingale survives the Civil War. He ends up becoming a gold miner in the Wild West state of California. Robert falls in love with Robin. They have a son, called Robbie, or Robert Nightingale II.
Runaway slaves and pioneers travel on covered wagon trails to Oregon and California. The pioneers meet Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, and a Buffalo Soldier named Cowboy. Later Robert and Robin become successful enough to take a trip on the doomed ship, the Titanic!
The pandemic is spreading after every war. Even Abraham Lincoln had the coughing sickness before he was assassinated. Gail wants to stop the coughing sickness. She meets with women all over the world to find the cure. The cure for the sickness is hidden in ancient herbs and elixirs. This story is the beginning of the search for the cure of what we now call the coronavirus, coughing sickness. There will be a book two that will continue the tale of Gail Nightingale. She goes through history from the first pandemic of 1918 Spanish influenza. Gail Nightingale goes all the way to WWI, WWII and to the present coronavirus pandemic
