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The Doctor’s Lady
by Jody Hedlund
Book 2 in the Hearts of Faith series.
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Priscilla White knows she'll never be a wife or mother and feels God's call to the mission field in India. Dr. Eli Ernest is back from Oregon Country only long enough to raise awareness of missions to the natives before heading out West once more. But then Priscilla and Eli both receive news from the mission board: No longer will they send unmarried men and women into the field. Left scrambling for options, the two realize the other might be the answer to their needs. Priscilla and Eli agree to a partnership, a marriage in name only that will allow them to follow God's leading into the mission field. But as they journey west, this decision will be tested by the hardships of the trip and by the unexpected turnings of their hearts.
The fictional couple is based on missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, whose 1836 journey helped establish a mission among the Cayuse in Oregon Country. The novel foregrounds the dangers of overland travel and the compromises of a marriage first formed for institutional approval, while faith is tested by hardship and cultural encounter.
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