Appalachian Song

Forever within the memories of my heartAlways remember, you are perfectly lovedBertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East TennesseeOut of all the mothers she's tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health, the bond between the childless midwife and the motherless teen grows strongBut soon Songbird is forced to make a heartbreaking decision that will tear this little family apartThirty years later, the day after his father's funeral, Walker Wylie is stunned to learn he was adopted as an infantThe famous country singer enlists the help of adoption advocate Reese Chandler in the hopes of learning why he was abandoned by his birth parentsWith the only clue he has in hand, Walker and Reese head deep into the Appalachian Mountains to track down Bertie Jenkin