For nearly two hundred years, women in Ashley Tolliver’s family have practiced the art of midwifery in their hill community. Now she wants to consider her skills a step further, but going to medical college means abandoning those ladies to whom she has dedicated her lifestyle, the mountains she loves, as well as the awakening of her heart.

Ashley Tolliver has tended to the women of her little Appalachian community for a long time. As their midwife, she thinks she has seen it all. Until a young female gives delivery about The Mountain Midwife at Ashley’s house and is abducted just like Ashley tries to take the dangerously bleeding mother to the nearest medical center. Now Ashley can be on a objective to find the female and her newborn baby . before it’s too late.

Hunter McDermott is on a quest-to locate his birth mother. After receiving more media interest than he could ever wish to be in the proper place at the right period, he receives a inexplicable telephone call from a female claiming to become his mom. Hunter seeks out the aid of the local midwife in the mountain town where in fact the phone call originated-surely she can shed some light by himself family members background.

Ashley isn’t prepared for just how Hunter’s entrance into her world affects her heart and her future. He reignites dreams of experiencing her own family that she has long reserve in favor of making her medical degree and being able to do a lot more for her community. But is it dedication to her contacting or fear of the unidentified that helps to keep her feet securely planted in the Appalachian dirt? Or is it something more-fear of her growing feelings for Hunter-that makes her hesitant to explore the globe beyond the mountains?