How Elizabeth comes to free herself from a loveless relationship, grapple with Lauren's astonishing abilities, and come to terms with her own emptiness is the compelling heart of this remarkable tale. Then Lauren Denniker, Elizabeth's adopted daughter, begins to display a miraculous gift-just as Elizabeth learns that she herself is unable to have a child. But Elizabeth, who has comforted so many, has lost her heart to the one man who cannot reciprocate, even when she moves into his home to share his bed and raise his child. After all, there were no more midwives after me."For generations, the women in Elizabeth's family have brought life to Kettle Valley, West Virginia, heeding a destiny to tend its women with herbals, experience, and wisdom. "I was expected to follow Mama, follow Granny, follow Great-granny.
"I come from a long line of midwives," narrates Elizabeth Whitely.
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