In a continuation of her Midwives series, Laurie Alice Eakes is back with Heart's Safe Passage. The War of 1812 is still being waged between the United States and England, and this time the action takes place on a boat bound to England. A wife is desperate to reach England to plead for her husband's release. And the only way to get there is to take a midwife with her on a British ship during the turbulent times. As you read the book, you will be transported to that time...and gripped by the characters and their journeys.
More about the book:
It's 1813
and all Phoebe Lee wants out of life is to practice midwifery in Loudon County,
Virginia. When Belinda, her pregnant sister-in-law, presses Phoebe to accompany
her onto a British privateer in order to cross the Atlantic and save her husband
from an English prison, Phoebe tries to refuse, then finds herself kidnapped.
Captain
Rafe Docherty is a man in search of revenge. His ship is no place for women,
but he needs Belinda in order to obtain information about the man who destroyed
his family and his life. Between Belinda's whining and Phoebe's hostility, Rafe
can't help but wonder if he made the right choice.
When it
becomes apparent there is an enemy among them on the ship, the stakes are
raised. Will they reach the shores of England in time? Can love and forgiveness
overcome vengeance?
Laurie
Alice Eakes is the
author of Lady in the Mist, A Necessary Deception, and several
other novels. She won a National Readers Choice Award for Best Regency in 2007
for Family Guardian. Laurie Alice writes full-time from her home in Texas,
where she lives with her husband and sundry dogs and cats.
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