Fever
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MatureOngoing30m
Last published Wed, Aug 24, 2022
The summer of 1793, has just started for 15 year old Layla Mae. She lives with her widowed mother and little sister, Mattie Mae above bakery shop. Layla spends most of her days running errands for mother and making plans that the bakery below them will become the best bakery Philadelphia has ever seen. The family business has gotten gotten more lively giving Layla hope of the future that she visions. But that dream is turned to dust when the fever breaks out leaving the streets of Philadelphia empty and destroying everything in its path, turning Layla's world upside down. But that's not the only problem her widow mother has gotten the fever. Now her and her sister have to flee the city leaving everything they knew in the feverish place they called home. But soon she finds out that the fever isn't just in Philadelphia it's every where. How does Layla and her sisters Mattie learn to survive this death taking disease?
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