The Healer's Daughter - Hinger, Charlotte
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"Bethany Herbert, daughter of a legendary healer, leaves the South for the new black community of Nicodemus, Kansas. Despite the hardships, the community comes to love the prairie. Bethany's mother, Queen Bess, comes to Nicodemus, as does the handsome lawyer Jed Talbot, who galvanizes the settlers. Bethany resists the call of her heart because Queen Bess warns her the best healers are chaste and single. When the Herbert women's medical procedures are undermined, Bethany nearly succumbs to Queen Bess's call for total segregation from the whites Bess hates. Sinister forces come into play through…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
"Bethany Herbert, daughter of a legendary healer, leaves the South for the new black community of Nicodemus, Kansas. Despite the hardships, the community comes to love the prairie. Bethany's mother, Queen Bess, comes to Nicodemus, as does the handsome lawyer Jed Talbot, who galvanizes the settlers. Bethany resists the call of her heart because Queen Bess warns her the best healers are chaste and single. When the Herbert women's medical procedures are undermined, Bethany nearly succumbs to Queen Bess's call for total segregation from the whites Bess hates. Sinister forces come into play through white politicians seeking the black vote, and sabotage by a woman within Nicodemus who yearns for the old color hierarchy. The people of Nicodemus fight back and ultimately triumph"--
Autorenporträt
" Charlotte Hinger is a multi-award winning novelist and Kansas historian. Her historical novel Come Spring, published by Simon and Schuster, won the Medicine Pipe Bearers award from Western Writers of America and was a Spur finalist. Kirkus Reviews selected Hidden Heritage, the third mystery in her Lottie Albright series, as one of the best mysteries of 2013, and one of the best fiction books. The first book in the series, Deadly Descent, won the AZ Publisher's Award for Best Mystery/Suspense. In 2016 University Press of Oklahoma published her nonfiction book Nicodemus: Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas. It won second place in the Westerner's International Best Book contest. She still calls herself a Kansan, although she now lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. "