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The Sweet Blue Distance

by Sara Donati
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A young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need and faces dangers more harrowing than the ones she’s fleeing in this epic tale of survival, redemption, and love from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of the Wilderness series.

1857: In a bid to outrun her past, Carrie Ballentyne accepts a nursing position with a doctor in the New Mexico Territory. She knows the journey from New York to Santa Fe will not be easy, but nothing could have prepared her for the wilderness she encounters, stunning in both beauty and brutality. To endure, she must learn to rely on her fellow travelers—and one enigmatic man in particular. As she and Eli Ibarra tackle challenge after challenge together, she feels her heart opening to this rugged land—and the man willing to risk so much for her.
The trip west is only the beginning of Carrie’s challenges, though. In Santa Fe, Carrie is beloved by new mothers for her talent and compassion. But when she realizes that her employer and his wife are keeping secrets from her, she must uncover the truth to protect their young daughter. To save the little girl she’s come to cherish, Carrie will have to confront the demons in her own past—a feat that will take all of her bravery and the help of the man she’s come to love and depend on above all others.
The Sweet Blue Distance is the unforgettable story of one woman’s courage to heal herself, her family, and the women and children entrusted to her care.

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    April 2, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781984805072

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    • English

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    • Booklist

      March 1, 2024
      Carrie Ballantyne, granddaughter of Elizabeth Middleton, who was introduced in Into the Wilderness, which launched Donati's best-selling Wilderness series, is a dedicated nurse and midwife in a New York charity hospital when the director receives a request from a friend in Santa Fe. Dr. Sam Markham urgently needs an assistant as his wife is experiencing a fragile pregnancy. The assistant must be resourceful and able to ride a horse and learn Spanish, and Carrie fits the bill. She sets out in May 1857, journeying by rail, riverboat, stagecoach, and horse. The perils and pains of mid-nineteenth-century travel as well as struggles with gender restrictions form an epic undertaking. Eli Ibarra, a Basque Pueblo surveyor who is well-established in Santa Fe, accompanies Carrie during the frantic last stage of her journey. Santa Fe is totally different in every way from the world Carrie has known, and she finds herself working with a mix of cultures and races and dealing with clashing mores and social stratification. In a stunning tour de force, Donati portrays compelling characters and illuminates a key aspect of American history surrounding the acquisition of half of Mexico in the Mexican American War and the growing discord between slave and free states.

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    • Library Journal

      April 12, 2024

      Writing her popular historical fiction as Donati (a pen name for PEN/Hemingway Award winner Rosina Lippi), the author returns with an epic Western story set in 1857, about a young midwife who travels from New York City to Santa Fe in the New Mexico Territory, where she makes a new life for herself. Prepub Alert.

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      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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