The Mother Book

A leather ledger holding fifty years of births, deaths, and women's secrets becomes the battleground when a new state law threatens to imprison every unlicensed midwife in the North Carolina mountains. Nineteen-year-old Lettie Odom—suddenly the only granny woman for thirty miles after her grandmother's stroke—must defy a young doctor, outrun the law, and confront a terrible lie buried in her own family's record. What she discovers about her mother's death will shake the foundations of everything she was raised to protect.