The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman-Used Denise Williams Until he shows up

Until he shows up

This unprecedented narrative

Then he becomes more than just a hot body with the face to match

With her personal and professional lives suddenly in shambles

The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman-Used Denise Williams Until he shows upIn the fall of 1918, thirteen year old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphias overcrowded slums and the anti immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U. S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and desperate survivors wear white masks to ward off illness.