The Mountain Midwife
by Laurie Alice Eakes was a very interesting tale with the practice of
midwifery right in the center of the story.
This unbelievably is the first
book I have read by her and I can’t believe what I have been missing out
on. We first meet the midwife Ashley
Tolliver late at night by a banging on her door of a young mysterious woman who
is just about to give birth. Ashley sees
that the young girl whom she just helped deliver and her baby need to get to
the hospital, so as she goes outside her mountain home to make the call, the
young mother, baby, and the man she was with disappear into the night. Hot on their heels there is another vehicle
in pursuit. Little does Ashley know that
these nighttime visitors will set off a chain of events that will affect her
for some time.
Then in steps wealthy, famous, engineer Hunter McDermott
with no apparent ties to the Virginia Mountain folk, except for a strange phone
call he received from a woman claiming to be his mother. His
life apparently turned upside down, is now trying to find answers about his
identity and where he came from, he seeks out Ashley as her grandmother was the
midwife that delivered him into the world.
Ashley’s grandmother is no longer living so Ashley and Hunter begin to
work together to find his mystery mother.
That is just the tip of the ice burg, as Ashley and Hunter
discover secrets neither were prepared for and both are beginning to question
their life choices and decisions. This
was quite a novel filled with romance, suspense, unknown danger, and two people
trying to find their place in this world.
I highly recommend this. I had a
hard time putting it down and I am really looking forward to reading more of
Ms. Eakes books.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Zondervan’s
Fiction Guild and the opinions stated are my own.
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