MY REVIEW:
Lady in the Mist is a story about secrets – all sorts of secrets. Tabitha’s work as a midwife exposes her to many secrets of her town. Could one of them be the reason for the frightening threats she has received? When she meets Dominick repeatedly out at night after curfew, she suspects that he could be responsible for the mysterious disappearance of young men in the village. For this reason, she fights her growing attraction to Dominick. Then Tabitha’s long lost fiance returns with secrets of his own. As the web of secrets enlarges, evidence seems to point in several directions. Will Tabitha be able to overcome her loss of faith and learn the truth? Will the men responsible for the criminal activity be revealed? Which man will Tabitha end up with – Dominick or her former fiance? I’ll never tell. You MUST pick up a copy of Lady in the Mist and find out for yourself.
Overall, I really enjoyed Lady in the Mist. The setting, characterization, and plot were excellent. The romantic tension was right on target. There was just the right amount of mystery and suspense to keep me wondering almost to the end. Historical facts were intriguing and seemed to be well researched. However, the author had a habit of ending chapters without total resolution to whatever was going on at the time. Then the next chapter would begin at a later time with a totally different topic and it would take awhile to find out what happened when I was left hanging back in the last chapter. But even with that slight problem, I still loved the story.
This book was provided for review by Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
A Whole Town’s Secrets Held by One Woman…
Could anyone get beyond the secrets of her past?
As a midwife, Tabitha Eckles, the woman at the center of Laurie Alice Eakes’ new book, Lady in the Mist, (ISBN: 978-0-8007-3452-7, February 2011, $14.99) knows the most intimate secrets of the women and families she cares for. While the women in town are drawn to her warmth and caring ways, the men are wary at best.
In the little town of Seabourne, Virginia where Tabitha Eckles lives, another standoff is brewing. It is 1809 and relations between America and England rest on the edge of a knife, when Tabitha crosses paths on the beach one morning with a man named Dominick Cherrett. He seems to have his own secrets to keep, including why he, a British aristocrat, is on American soil working as an indentured servant.
One chance meeting leads these two secret keepers through a twisted path of kidnappings, death threats, and public disgrace. Can Tabitha trust Dominick? What might he be hiding? And can either of them find true love in a world that seems set against them?
“Featuring a charming hero with a mysterious past and mission, Lady in the Mist brims with tension, intrigue, and romance.”–Julie Klassen, bestselling author of The Silent Governess and The Girl in the Gatehouse
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Laurie Alice Eakes began to be fascinated by the role of midwives in history during graduate school and she knew that someday she wanted to write novels with midwife heroines. Ten years later, after several published novels and a National Readers Choice Award for Best Regency, the midwives idea returned, and Lady in the Mist was born. Laurie Alice has a master degree in creative writing and writes full time from her home in Texas, where she lives with her husband and sundry dogs and cats.
