The Midwife of Bitter Creek: A Depression-Era Appalachian Family Saga

Bitter Creek, 1935: the hollow's midwife is accused of a death she didn't cause — and the truth she's kept buried for twenty-two years is about to cost her everything.

Iva Combs has caught nearly every baby born in Copper Hollow for over two decades, armed with nothing but steady hands and a leather-bound ledger her own mother taught her to keep. But when the young wife of the county's wealthiest family dies hours after a difficult birth, the powerful Ashbrooks need someone to blame — and an unlicensed granny-midwife makes an easy target. As a rigged inquest closes in around her, Iva realizes the real danger was never her own care that night. It's a secret her own hands helped bury on a desperate evening in 1913: a birth recorded as a loss that wasn't, a child she placed with her own hands and never spoke of again.

Now, with her daughter's future, a stranger's stolen identity, and her life's work all hanging in the balance, Iva must decide whether this county's respectable silence is worth protecting — or whether some truths are only worth telling if they cost you everything you have.

Rich with the grit, faith, and quiet defiance of Depression-era Appalachia, The Midwife of Bitter Creek is a sweeping Southern family saga about the women who hold a community together when its powerful men would rather it stayed quiet. For readers of Kristin Hannah, Lisa Wingate, and Delia Owens — and anyone who loves a small-town family saga where the past refuses to stay buried.

Scroll up and grab your copy of The Midwife of Bitter Creek today — and step into a hollow that never forgot how to fight for its own.

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E-bog: 9. juli 2026