There Is a Season: The Midwives (Harlequin Superromance No. 878) [Paperback]

Margot Early (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harlequin Superromance | Publication Date: November 1, 1999

The Midwives

Home to Alaska. To her ex-husband. Her family. And the babies waiting to be born…

Midwife Francesca Walcott has plenty of good reasons to stay away from Alaska. Her ex-husband, Charlie Marcus, for one. Her family, for another. Thirty years ago she chose to marry Charlie over her family's objections. They haven't forgiven her…or spoken to her since.

Now she's come home to Alaska—because Mia, a midwife, friend and former apprentice, has been found dead. She's left Francesca her estate: a house in Talkeetna, a mine and foty-three sled dogs.

Suddenly there are more reasons to stay in Alaska than to leave. The mystery surrounding Mia's death. The mothers and babies who need her skills as a midwife. The hope of reconciling with her family. And above all, Charlie. The man who's—somehow—connected to everything in her life. The man who she used to love…and still does.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 297 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (November 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373708785
• ISBN-13: 978-0373708789
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,531,910 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A good read, November 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: There Is a Season: The Midwives (Harlequin Superromance No. 878) (Paperback)

It has been over thirty years since Franscesca Walcott visited her birth state of Alaska. However, the midwife has a difficult decision to make when her ex-husband Charlie Marcus informs her that one of her former students Mia Kammerlander is missing. Cesca leaves her Precipice, Colorado home to go to Talkeetna, Alaska to see if she can help even though she knows she will receive, at best, an icy reception from her father and brother. Because of the family estrangement, Cesca has never even met her brother's children, who are adults.

Charlie has always loved Cesca and wants her back. He knows she has never forgiven him for conning her father in a mine deal or for making love with her best friend. He too has not forgotten her sleeping in someone else's bed. Mia's disappearance and ultimate death in an apparent snowmobile accident leads to the members of this extended but dysfunctional family to look inside their souls. Long kept secrets will soon be revealed that will either begin a healing process, especially for Charlie and Cesca, or destroy the final thread that holds them very loosely together.

THERE IS A SEASON, the third Midwives tale, is an entertaining story centering on family relationships. Besides enticingly detailing the second chance at love of Cesca and Charlie, the plot ties up the loose ends from the first two novels. Family secrets are revealed with hope that this dysfunctional crowd will bury the past to enjoy the future. Margot Early provides her audience with an intriguing novel that continues to pay homage to midwives in an entertaining way.

Harriet Klausner

5.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER STRANGELY MOVING STORY, January 1, 2004

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M. Hartmann "abayyan" (Milan, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: There Is a Season: The Midwives (Harlequin Superromance No. 878) (Paperback)

You just want to bang these characters heads together and tell them to get on with life instead of hanging onto their mistakes.

M. Early tell a great story where you can feel the characters pains and failures and wish that they had straightened out their problems a h@@@ of a lot sooner than 20 years later. What a skrewed up [dysfunctional] bunch of ??????.

Francesca Walcott [with good reason] left Talkeetna, Alaska - apparently to live with Charlie Marcus in Hawaii - without the benefit of marriage. Step number 1.

Charlie got drafted into the war and spent a lot of time flying. Cesca let fear take over. The war took its toll on Charlie as on all the men and escaped in drinking.
Cesca, like all insecure women, took the road of escape in divorce instead of heading home. Step number 2.

Now twenty years later, living with regret, she returns home to Alaska and Charlie, who has been on the wagon for seventeen years, to check into the death of Mia, her midwife protege.

Now in their fifties, and unknowingly still in love, Charlie and Cesca meet for transport to Talkeetna. Cesca wonders about finally resolving her family's feud and then develops a suspicion that Charlie had a deep interest in Mia. Did they sleep together?

And who was Alan, the young adonis that lived across from Mia's shack? Charlie did not like Cesca's attraction to the young man.
Why had Mia listed Francesca as the person to call if anything happened to her? Where was Mia's ex-husband?

Pammie Sue and Roy Walcott Jr. had three children that Cesca had yet to meet. Stormy, Pammie Sue's sister, was Cesca's close friend, still in Hawaii.
Then there was the police officer, Peter.

Then off and on we hear the conversations that Francesca has with their daughter, Tara. Does she ever find out how much Charlie knows of Tara's life?

This is a wonderful blending and coming together of this strange family with it's emotional traumas. Understanding and forgiveness almost come too late. It is almost too much to deal with.

Still - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED --M - even though you have to live with their pain and regret.