title: Heart's Safe Passage: A Novel (The Midwives)
author:  Laurie Alice Eakes 
description: <b>One woman takes the treacherous journey toward redemption . . . and love.<br /></b><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />"In her delightful and descriptive style, author Laurie Alice Eakes has once again crafted a story that will capture readers' hearts from the first page."--Kathi Macias, author of <i>Deliver Me from Evil<br /></i><br />"Laurie Alice Eakes's turn of phrase and twist of a plot had me smiling long after the last page was turned. A don't-miss story."--Kathleen Y'Barbo, author of <i>The Inconvenient Marriage of Charlotte Beck<br /></i><br />"Make room for this one on your 'keepers' shelf!"--Loree Lough, author of <i>From Ashes to Honor<br /></i><br /><br />Laurie Alice Eakes is the author of <i>Lady in the Mist</i>, <i>A Necessary Deception</i>, 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.
zlib_text: > > **FORTUNE’S WISH**
  
  > > EILEEN RICHARDS
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is
  coincidental.
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Amy Pfaff
  
  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or
  used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the
  publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
  
  Edited by Louisa Cornell
  
  Cover design by Sweet & Spicy Designs
  
  First Edition May 2019
  
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   _For Sarah, the newest daughter of my heart._
  
  >  **CONTENTS**
  
  >  _About This Book_
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _Chapter 10_
  
  >  _Chapter 11_
  
  >  _Chapter 12_
  
  >  _About the Aut