Francine Howard has her life all mapped out until the soldier she planned to marry at WWII’s end writes to tell her he’s in love with a woman in England. Devastated, Francine seeks a fresh start in the Appalachian Mountains, training to be a nurse midwife for the Frontier Nursing Service.
Deeply affected by the horrors he witnessed at war, Ben Locke has never thought further ahead than making it home to Kentucky. His future shrouded in as much mist as his beloved mountains, he’s at a loss when it comes to envisioning what’s next for his life.
When Francine’s and Ben’s paths intersect, it’s immediately clear that they are from different worlds and value different things. But love has a way of healing old wounds . . . and revealing tantalizing new possibilities.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: These Healing Hills
Book Author: Ann Gabhart
What do you like about this book:
"You might be confused on how to get to some place, but with the good Lord beside you, you're never lost."
Aspiring Frontier Nurse Midwife Francine Howard is always getting lost, much to her chagrin and to the amusement of the Appalachian mountain folk she labors to serve while "catching babies". When caught in a rainstorm due to an errant horse, she is rescued by a local man returning to his Kentucky home after serving as a medic in World War II. While sheltering together underneath a crop of rocks, her mentor's mantra rings strangely true, "no one comes here by accident".
Benjamin Locke has made it home alive. "But happy ain't always so easy to catch and hold on to as the the storybooks tell us"; Ben's family needs him, especially now that his father has passed, his youngest sister is in frail health, and one of his other sisters has come to live with them while she is in the "family way". Nurse Howard seems to have won the hearts of his siblings rather quickly, and it seems that Ben's thoughts turn towards the pretty nurse way too often as well. Regrettably, Francine is not from the mountain and while Ben has no idea what his future holds, he can only pray that "the Lord would point the way".
This story has a lovely lilt, its characters comfortable in their own skin, and a setting that is sure to satisfy.
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