title: Secrets of the Vine for Women
author: Darlene Marie Wilkinson
description: Darlene Marie Wilkinson is Prayer Coordinator of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries and a contributing author of The Joy of a Promise Kept: The Powerful Role Wives Play. She recently presented the Women Who Make a Difference conferences in Kenya and South Africa. She is also featured on her husband Bruce's video series The Heart That Makes the Home.
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  In rural West Virginia, Joanie and her foster siblings live on a farm tending
  a mysterious plant called the vine. The older girls are responsible for
  cultivating the vine, performing sacred rituals to make it grow. After
  Joanie’s arranged marriage goes horribly wrong, leaving her widowed and with a
  baby, she plots her escape with the help of her foster brother, Cello.
  
  
  But before they can get away, her baby goes missing and Joanie, desperate to
  find him, turns to the vine, understanding it to be far more powerful than her
  siblings realize. She begins performing generations-old rituals to summon the
  vine’s power and goes on a perilous journey into the wild, pushing the
  boundaries of her strength and sanity to bring her son home.
  
  
  _Daughters of the Wild_ is an utterly absorbing debut that explores the female
  mind in captivity and the ways in which both nature and women fight
  domination. Like _The Bell Jar_ set in rural Appalachia, _Daughters of the
  Wild_ introduces