Meet Mabel, the ambitious and willful servant of a royal palace on the brink of catastrophe. She, too, is on the brink—of a complicated friendship with Prince Arthur Malet, and of achieving her dream to become a physician. The palace, after all, will soon need one more than ever. In To Help and to Heal, Katie Lacadie seamlessly weaves together the magical clarity of a fairy tale and the biting realism of a plague story first reaching readers during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Mabel’s tale is at once a blockbuster fantasy adventure, an astute parable of our times, and a lesson on what it means to be a true hero in one’s community.