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Midwife of the Blue Ridge
Christine Blevins
A stirring debut novel "of love, struggle, and savagery
on America's colonial frontier" (Bernard Cornwell).
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, she was thought to be
cursedand unfit for marriage. Maggie is also gifted
with quick wits and skilled in medicine, trained as a
midwife. Venturing to the colonies as an indentured servant,
she hopes to escape the superstitions of the old
countryand find a home of her own. But what she
discovers is a New World fraught with new dangers.
Berkley Trade, August 2008
448 pages ISBN: 0425221687 Trade Size $14.00
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