The Healer's Daughter
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About this book
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. Bethanys 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 womens medical procedures are undermined Bethany nearly succumbs to Queen Besss 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.
