Publisher's Synopsis
During the Great Depression in Arkansas, a public health nurse discovers a self-trained midwife who has contracted tuberculosis. The law is that TB-infected patients must be isolated in the TB sanitorium, but doing so would leave the woman's three children and husband alone at home. In addition, the midwife herself is pregnant. The public health nurse is torn between doing what her physician supervisor requires and acting on her sympathy for the midwife. She also must determine the physician's true motives for his vague romantic advances and the bizarre behavior of his sister. Throughout this tale, there are old secrets and new laws that unravel lives, creating heartache and opportunity simultaneously.
