{"product_id":"the-midwifes-vow-moira-macbride-9798198419254","title":"The Midwife's Vow: A Sweet, Clean Scottish Historical Romance. Book 1 of The Highland Healers.","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"She had vowed never to belong to anyone. The vow had not anticipated a twelve-year-old girl with a fever and a father who knew her name.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAileen of Beinn Dearg is twenty-one, the first and most senior of Sorcha's apprentices, the village midwife the country has come to trust. She has made a private vow: the work is her household, the stillroom is her hearth, no husband will be standing at her half-door. She is at peace with this. She is, in her quiet careful way, \u003ci\u003egood\u003c\/i\u003e at the life she has chosen.\u003cbr\u003eLaird Murdo MacFarlane is thirty-seven, a widower of six years, and the father of a twelve-year-old daughter who has had a fever for four days and is not getting better. He sends to Beinn Dearg. The country sends Aileen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe rides out for two weeks of nursing in a country house she has never seen. She stays nine months. The illness is hard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe recovery is slow. The laird is quiet, scholarly, careful, and entirely uninterested in being managed. The girl is bright, brave, and unmistakably a child who has been short of a mother. The vow that has held Aileen for twelve years begins to look, on certain mornings - washing-light morning, hearth-light morning - like a vow she made before she had met any of the people who might have changed her mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA sweet-clean Highland romance about choice, vocation, and the half-door that finally opens both ways. The first book of \u003ci\u003eThe Highland Healers\u003c\/i\u003e. Stand-alone HEA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Moira MacBride\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798198419254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.83d","brand":"Moira MacBride","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084203041023,"sku":"9798198419254","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-midwifes-vow-moira-macbride-9798198419254","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}