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The Mountain Midwife

By: Laurie Alice Eakes
Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
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For nearly 200 years, women in Ashley Tolliver's family have practiced the art of midwifery in their mountain community. Now she wants to take her skills a step further, but attending medical school means abandoning those women to whom she has dedicated her life, the mountains she loves, and the awakening of her heart.

Ashley Tolliver has tended to the women of her small Appalachian community for years. As their midwife, she thinks she has seen it all. Until a young woman gives birth at Ashley's home and is abducted just as Ashley tries to take the dangerously bleeding mother to the nearest hospital. Now Ashley is on a mission to find the woman and her newborn baby...before it's too late.

Hunter McDermott is on a quest - to track down his birth mother. After receiving more media attention than he could ever want for being in the right place at the right time, he receives a mysterious phone call from a woman claiming to be his mother. Hunter seeks out the aid of the local midwife in the mountain town where the phone call originated - surely she can shed some light on his own family background.

Ashley isn't prepared for the way Hunter's entrance into her world affects her heart and her future. He reignites dreams of having her own family that she has long put aside in favor of earning her medical degree and being able to do even more for her community. But is it commitment to her calling or fear of the unknown that keeps her feet firmly planted in the Appalachian soil? Or is it something more - fear of her growing feelings for Hunter - that makes her hesitant to explore the world beyond the mountains?

©2015 Laurie Alice Eakes (P)2018 Tantor
Christian Fiction Clean & Wholesome Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Midwife Romance Women's Fiction Heartfelt Appalachian Medical education

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An underlying mystery

Liked the caring heart of the midwife and the extremes she would go to help her ladies in waiting.Two different difficult situations tie together as the mystery woven throughout the story is solved

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This story had potential but I found the reactions of several of the characters unrealistic. Let us start with the main characters. How does a mature, well trained and experienced midwife - from generations of midwives! - possess such an overdeveloped notion of responsibility for other people's poor decisions?? Blaming herself when things happen out of her control?! Then there is the self condemning internal narrative as she tells herself over and over that following her dream to study as a doctor will leave the local women without aid. For goodness sake, there is a local hospital nearby full of medical staff including trained midwives. Sure, the local women may have one less option for a few years but they would not be without available care. And Ashley's parents were not going to be OS indefinitely. It was all a bit OTT for me. Her final decision was not a problem, it was the path she took to reach it.

As for Hunter I also found some of his reactions excessive. Anger is normal, yes. Needing answers is normal - absolutely. Yet his immediate rejection of the family he grew up in and the sense of obligatory responsibility toward others he has never met... he sounded like a petulant teenager at times, not what I would call a mature adult. It all felt a little "plastic".

That said, real life is messy and these reactions are not unheard of. They just felt incongruous and I found myself disappointed as I dragged my way toward the close of the story.

But, hey, that's just me. You may love it as others have and if you get something from it, that's great.

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