Heart's Safe Passage by Laurie Alice Eakes is part tender drama and part suspense novel. Set during the war of 1812, this fast-paced, high-seas adventure is gripping and rich with memorable characters.
Phoebe Lee is a widow who has trained to become a midwife in Virginia. After a difficult past, she just wants to start over and embrace her new life as a midwife, helping women from all walks of life. Her sister-in-law, Belinda, has always been a bit spoiled and pampered all of her life, and when she wants someone to do something she will do just about anything to make sure they do it. This time she wants her sister-in-law to accompany her on a dangerous voyage to rescue her husband from English prison, and she wants a midwife by her side. Phoebe refuses to go on this insane endeavor, but Belinda is not willing to accept 'no' as her answer. Phoebe finds herself abducted and forcibly carried onto a vessel and off to sea. Captain Rafe Docherty has promised Belinda he will rescue her husband, but he actually has his own ugly agenda of revenge. Will they be able to rescue George, and is that truly even part of Rafe's plan? Will they even survive the trip across the seas in the middle of a war?
I VERY highly recommend this book! Lady in the Mist was book one in The Midwives series, and I have adored both books in this series so far! If you have not read Lady in the Mist yet, you could read this book as a stand alone, but it is definitely worth your time to read them both, if you are able to. The writing is superb, and the characters practically leap off the page. Once I started this book, I did not want to put it down for a moment. It has some family drama, mystery, intense suspense, action, adventure, and romance. There's plenty of great historical detail plus the whole thing is woven together with a beautiful message of love, forgiveness, and redemption. I become a bigger fan of Laurie Alice Eakes with each new book that I read!
Book Summary:
One woman takes the treacherous journey toward redemption . . . and love.
All Phoebe Lee wants out of life is to practice midwifery in Loudon County, Virginia. But when she refuses to accompany her pregnant sister-in-law to help save her husband from an English prison during the War of 1812, Phoebe finds herself pressed aboard a British privateer.
Captain Rafe Docherty promises to get Phoebe's brother-in-law out of prison in exchange for information Rafe needs to exact revenge on the man who destroyed his family. As he realizes his attraction to Phoebe, she determines to get ashore before her patient goes into labor--and before her own heart is in danger. But an enemy in their midst threatens to end their plans--and their very lives.
*Available February 2012 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
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Author Bio:
Laurie Alice Eakes is the author of Lady in the Mist, A Necessary Deception, Heart's Safe Passage, and several other novels. She won a National Readers Choice Award for Best Regency in 2007 for Family Guardian. Laurie Alice writes full-time from her home in Texas, where she lives with her husband and sundry dogs and cats.Visit her website: http://www.lauriealiceeakes.com/
This book was provided for review by Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
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I think this entire series is bound to be good.
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