East of the Sun — Barbara Bickmore

LILIANE. CAROLYN. COURTNEY. FOR HALF A CENTURY, THEY WOULD DEVOTE THEMSELVES TO SIMBAYO, THE PLACE THAT LIES EAST OF THE SUN.

When twenty-year-old Liliane Wentworth set eyes on Dr. Baxter Hathaway in her family's parlor in 1926, she knew she would follow him anywhere. And so she came to Simbayo, giving up a life of gentility and comfort to nurse the native tribes of the Congo...and to be near Baxter.

Simbayo would make a woman of Liliane, and she would make it her home. She would give birth to Carolyn, who would prove every bit as willful and passionate as her mother. Carolyn would live a life that mirrored Liliane's, filled with bittersweet love and fierce belief in medicine, a tradition she would pass on to her own daughter, Courtney. Courtney would complete the dynasty of women healers, who brought faith and hope to a beleaguered land, whose destiny was forever bound with the place called Simbayo.