The Midwife's Vow: A Sweet, Clean Scottish Historical Romance. Book 1 of Highland Healers.

"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." Aileen 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, good at the life she has chosen. >She rides out for two weeks of nursing in a country house she has never seen. She stays nine months. The illness is hard. The 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. A sweet-clean Highland romance about choice, vocation, and the half-door that finally opens both ways. The first book of The Highland Healers. Stand-alone HEA.