On the front lines of World War I,
the deadliest threat is the flu.
The Fevered World
In this historical novel, a father and daughter—he a disciplined country doctor, she an audacious young Army nurse—are thrust onto the medical front lines of World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic.
As disease spreads faster than science can contain it, Lorne battles to develop a vaccine while Helen is drawn into the brutal realities of wartime nursing. Separated by an ocean but bound by love and loss, each must navigate grief, politics, and the unrelenting demands of duty.
From the Kansas prairie to New York City’s Department of Health and field hospitals in France, father and daughter follow parallel paths through a world upended—forced to decide what matters most: duty, ambition, or love.
“Not til we are lost, do we begin to find ourselves.”
Henry David Thoreau
Meet Author Dee Andrews
My writing began with a question: in 1918, how did a virus travel from a remote corner of southwestern Kansas around the world to kill over 50 million people?
Years later, that curiosity grew into my novel The Fevered World and a body of work exploring family, resilience, and the search for home.
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