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By Michelle Shocklee
Publication Date: October 2023
Genre: General / Historical
ISBN10: 9781496472
Topics/Issues: adopt, adoption, blended family, domestic violence, domestic abuse, faith, faithful, family, family obligation, fear, fearful, forgiving, forgive, forgiveness, grace, hope, hopeful, hopefulness, parents, parenting, parent, pre-marital, premarital, sexual purity, redemption, salvation, redeem, teenagers, teenage, teens, child abuse, child trafficking
Settings: The Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee
Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she’s tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943. As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health, the bond between the childless midwife and the motherless teen grows strong. But soon Songbird is forced to make a heartbreaking decision that will tear this little family apart. Thirty years later, the day after his father’s funeral,…
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