A Balm in Gilead (Book 6)
After the Great Fire of 1864, the traumatized the people of Blaineton need to repair and rebuild their small New Jersey town. Self-effacing Maggie suddenly emerges as a leader, and husband Eli, family members, and friends encourage her to run for Town Council. Running for office is a controversial move because no woman has ever done this before.
But running for office abruptly becomes a secondary issue for Maggie when a typhoid fever epidemic threatens to disrupt Blaineton’s new sense of unity. The town’s doctors - including Maggie’s eldest daughter, Lydia - struggle to bring the fever under control and uncover the source of the epidemic, while Maggie apprises the Town Council of the fever’s spread and organizes efforts to care for the ill and control the epidemic. But will fear and blame among some of the town folk derail all the hard work?