These Healing Hills

Title: These Healing Hills

Author: Ann H Gabhart

Chapters: 43

Pages: 345

Genre: Christian Historical Fiction/ Christian historical romance

Rating: 5 stars

     Francine Howard thought she had her future planned out, but life and God has other plans. She had thought that with WWII ending she be planning a wedding. Instead, she finds her in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky.  As a nurse-midwife student at the Frontier Nursing Service, she starts to find her purpose in life again. She finds herself falling in love with the area and the people.  She doesn't want to fall in love again.

     Ben Locke is a solider that is happy to have made it home to his beloved Kentucky hills.  He just wants to forget the horrors of war and move on.  He doesn't know what else he wants to do with his life, though as a medic in the war he has the option to use the GI bill to expand on that. He doesn't want to fall for an outsider who could leave at any moment.

     I went into These Healing Hills knowing I was going to love it and I did.  I've loved all of Ann H Gabhart books I've read and this was one was no different.  I also loved that it was a part of Kentucky history of a nursing service that is still very much still in use today.

     As a child who loved history especially Kentucky history as it is my own state, I was fascinated by not only the Frontier Nursing service started by Mary Breckinridge and the pack horse librarians. I think the pack horse stories are one thing that leads me to become a library employee.  I am looking forward to her next book.

I received a complimentary copy of These Healing Hills from Netgalley . I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.