101! The Last Midwife by: Sandra Dallas

Borrowed from Library

Synopsis from GoodReads:

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

Recommend: Yes! This is a book that will stay with you. Even on the last page, there is a secret to be told. You are rooting for this older woman who has made her life’s work to be helping to birth babies. Even with her own different life, she still helps the mothers, fathers, and newborns in any way she can. This book can be borrowed at the library!

100!!! The Book Woman’s Daughter by: Kim Michelle Richardson

Borrowed from library

Such a hard but good book to read. Somehow I think it was better than the first one!

99. The Heartbreak Creek By: Kaki Warner

Borrowed from library

Synopsis from Goodreads:

First in a wonderful new historical series starring four unlikely brides who make their way West.

Edwina Ladoux hoped becoming a mail-order bride would be her way to a better life, but as soon as she arrives in Breakheart, Colorado, and meets Declan Brodie and his four rambunctious children, she realizes she’s made a mistake. Luckily, Edwina and Declan agreed on a three- month courtship period, which should give them time to get the proxy marriage annulled. Except that as the weeks pass, thoughts of annulment turn into hopes for a real marriage until Declan’s first wife suddenly returns.

Recommendation: I found this book along with others that are similar to Francine River, The Lady’s Mine. This is a mail order bride, but she brings along her sister, and everything goes differently. I have sign up to get the next book in the series and so I did enjoy this one.