The Last Midwive by Sandra Dallas - 353 pages
It
is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town
where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime.
The women of Swandyke trust and depend on Gracy, and most couldn't imagine
getting through pregnancy and labor without her by their sides.
But
everything changes when a baby is found dead...and the evidence points to Gracy
as the murderer.
She
didn't commit the crime, but clearing her name isn't so easy when her innocence
is not quite as simple, either. She knows things, and that's dangerous. Invited
into her neighbors' homes during their most intimate and vulnerable times, she
can't help what she sees and hears. A woman sometimes says things in the
birthing bed, when life and death seem suspended within the same moment. Gracy
has always tucked those revelations away, even the confessions that have cast
shadows on her heart.
With
her friends taking sides and a trial looming, Gracy must decide whether it's
worth risking everything to prove her innocence. And she knows that her years
of discretion may simply demand too high a price now...especially since she's
been keeping more than a few dark secrets of her own.
With
Sandra Dallas's incomparable gift for creating a sense of time and place and
characters that capture your heart,The Last Midwife tells the story
of family, community, and the secrets that can destroy and unite them.
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