Akron Public Library

Lilly Corbett Still has grown to love her life as the small-town doctor of Skip Rock, a tiny coal community in the Kentucky mountains. Though her husband, Tern, is away for a few months at a mining job, Lilly has her hands full with her patients and her younger sister visiting for the summer. Lilly turns to her good friend and neighbor, Armina, to help keep things in order-until a mysterious chain of events leaves Armina bedridden and an abandoned...

A skilled midwife, Copper devotes her heart to ministering to the women of eastern Kentucky, but shes also drawn to John Pelfreya long-lost sweetheart. She once believed she could never love again, but Copper begins to give her heart to John, only to discover that hes hiding something from hera secret he buried at Torrent Falls. A secret that continues to haunt him and threatens to keep them apart. .

In a radical departure from her urban life, Ann Turner buys a piece of remote Vermont land and sets up a tent home in deep forest. She's trying to escape an unending string of personal disasters in Boston; more, she desperately wants to leave behind a world she sees as increasingly defined by consumerism, hypocrisy, and division. As she writes in her journal, "There's got to be a more honest, less divided way to live." She soon learns she was mistaken...