Download or read book The Rose of Sebastopol written by Katharine McMahon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her surgeon fianc falls ill while serving in the Crimean War, Mariella Lingwood travels to Italy to care for him only to discover that her cousin, a volunteer in Florence Nightingale's nursing corps, has gone missing; a situation that prompts Mariella's search through multiple countries and challenges her beliefs about her ordered world.