Tags: The Dying Room, Mary Kendall Hope, M.K. Hope, Martinsville, Virginia, Death Angel, penicillin, Danville, Chatham, hospital, child, Quaker, 1937, Civil WarProduct Description: Step into the dying room. The Death Angel awaits. What victim will be his prey? As a small child lies helpless in a Martinsville hospital clinic in 1937, Young Emma Hankins, fresh from college struggles to understand the visions she has of angels and why patients around her keep dying. Enter handsome Tom Kendall that Emma finds so hard to resist. The young nurse soon realizes that she has gotten caught up in something bigger than the impending death of a child. She s stepped into the dying room of more than one life, and a legend that began in the Civil War.