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Lady in the Mist: A Novel (The Midwives) by Laurie Alice Eakes - The setting is coastal Virginia during the early 1800s, and the title character is Tabitha Eckles, an unmarried midwife and healer. Because of her profession, she knows many secrets, especially those involving the true state of some marriages and the parentage of illegitimate children. But when her path and that of an English redemptioner cross by chance, she has to choose whether to keep other secrets. The Englishman is Dominick Cherrett, a nobleman by birth, but serving as a bondsman to the local mayor. Dominick is keeping his identity a secret, as well as his true reasons for being in Virginia.
During this time, young American men are disappearing - pressed by the English navy - and Dominick falls under suspicion as being in league with the British. He eventually tells Tabitha that he is actually working to find out who the real traitors are and bring them to justice, but can she fully trust him? And if she does trust him, and help him, will he break her heart by abandoning her when he returns to England?
This was an engrossing story, because of the love story between the interesting characters, and because of the suspense involved as they try to determine who is betraying the young men of Seabourne to a corrupt British captain and why. For the most part, the story is well told and certainly kept me turning pages, but as in the previous novel I read by this author (A Necessary Deception), there were some cliff-hanger type chapter endings that were sort of miraculously resolved "off-screen" as it were. Not as many as in the other novel, but enough that I took notice. It may just be her style, but in a couple of instances I had the sense that she had a vague idea of how the characters would extract themselves from a sticky situation, but couldn't describe it, so she just left that part out and picked up in the next chapter. In general, I don't think it took away from the story, but did stretch credulity at times, and left me with the sense that I had missed something.
by Laurie Alice Eakes - The setting is coastal Virginia during the early 1800s, and the title character is Tabitha Eckles, an unmarried midwife and healer. Because of her profession, she knows many secrets, especially those involving the true state of some marriages and the parentage of illegitimate children. But when her path and that of an English redemptioner cross by chance, she has to choose whether to keep other secrets. The Englishman is Dominick Cherrett, a nobleman by birth, but serving as a bondsman to the local mayor. Dominick is keeping his identity a secret, as well as his true reasons for being in Virginia.During this time, young American men are disappearing - pressed by the English navy - and Dominick falls under suspicion as being in league with the British. He eventually tells Tabitha that he is actually working to find out who the real traitors are and bring them to justice, but can she fully trust him? And if she does trust him, and help him, will he break her heart by abandoning her when he returns to England?
This was an engrossing story, because of the love story between the interesting characters, and because of the suspense involved as they try to determine who is betraying the young men of Seabourne to a corrupt British captain and why. For the most part, the story is well told and certainly kept me turning pages, but as in the previous novel I read by this author (A Necessary Deception), there were some cliff-hanger type chapter endings that were sort of miraculously resolved "off-screen" as it were. Not as many as in the other novel, but enough that I took notice. It may just be her style, but in a couple of instances I had the sense that she had a vague idea of how the characters would extract themselves from a sticky situation, but couldn't describe it, so she just left that part out and picked up in the next chapter. In general, I don't think it took away from the story, but did stretch credulity at times, and left me with the sense that I had missed something.
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