Title: Midwife of the Blue Ridge
Description: They call her Dark Maggie for her thick black hair,but the name also has a more sinister connotation. As the lone survivor of an attack on her village, shewas thought to be cursed—and unfit for marriage. Maggie is also gifted with quick wits and skilled inmedicine, trained as a midwife. Venturing to thecolonies as an indentured servant, she hopes toescape the superstitions of the old country—andfind a home of her own. But what she discovers is aNew World fraught with new dangers.
Subjects: Fiction, Scots, Historical Fiction, Midwives, Women pioneers, Fiction, historical, general, Blue ridge mountains, fiction, Midwives, fiction
Places: United States, Blue Ridge Mountains Region