Gilbert Morris

Lynn Morris

At the request of a pregnant friend who wants her to deliver her baby, Dr. Cheney Duvall journeys to the remote and primitive wilds of the Ozarks and comes face to face with the illiteracy, superstitions, and hatred of the local mountain people. Original. IP.

Shadow of the Mountains

When her stepfather suddenly dies, Valeria Segrave finds she must take charge of her grieving mother and the vast estate which now belongs to her six-year-old half brother, the new Earl of Maledon. Though capable, Valeria is frustrated to find each day brings a new struggle as she tries to establish her authority with servants, stewards, and solicitors --all men. As a young woman with no blood relation to the earl, they are all too ready to dismiss her. Much to her chagrin, she must rely on the assistance of her stepfather's distant kinsman, Alastair, Lord Hylton. He is handsome and noble, and Valeria senses under the veneer of his gentlemanly behavior that she never measures up to his expectations of a refined lady. In light of that, accepting his help and feeling under a burden of gratitude to him is almost unbearable. Even when Valeria leaves the country estate for the glittering London Season, where she gets into a series of escapades, Lord Hylton is always there to witness, criticize, and correct her behavior. But if Alastair insists on engaging in a battle of wits and wills with the lively Valeria, she'll stop at nothing to prove that he's met his match.

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The baron's honourable daughter

In South Carolina during Reconstruction, Cheney Duvall relies on her Christian faith to help her meet the challenges she faces as a woman and as a physician

Toward the Sunrising

Cheney Duvall returns to New York, planning to go into practice with Devlin Buchanan, a physician who had previously asked her to marry him, but a ship carrying cholera may force her to change her plans

A City Not Forsaken

Unable to find a position because she is a woman, Cheney Duvall, a new physician, accepts a job providing medical care for two hundred women traveling by ship from New York to Washington Territory to become brides

The Stars for a Light

A disturbing letter from her great-aunts has brought Cheney Duvall to their indigo plantation outside of New Orleans, but what she and Shiloh Irons discover is much more serious and dangerous than they imagined

Secret Place of Thunder

Book seven in the Cheney Duvall, M. D. series traces the adventures, struggles, successes, & romances in the early career of a young woman physician, Cheney Duvall.

Island of the Innocent

Wedding bells are poised to chime for Doctor Cheney Duvall and Shiloh Irons-Winslow, but a vengeful plot to seize the Winslow fortune threatens to destroy the couple's happiness and drives them into the arms of the Lord.

Driven with the Wind

Cheney fights with the hospital staff of St. Francis for the fair treatment of San Francisco's undesirables. Cheney Duvall. MD book 6.

In the Twilight, in the Evening

A storm that forces Cheney and Shiloh to shelter on an island where inhabitants fight a terrible fever. Cheney and Shiloh: The Inheritance book 1.

Where Two Seas Met

Book 1Newlyweds Cheney Duvall and Shiloh Irons-Winslow are enjoying an idyllic honeymoon aboard a ship in the West Indies. When a fierce storm interrupts their carefree days, Cheney and Shiloh find themselves on a small island facing a mysterious illness. Quarantining the island and the ship's crew, they work themselves to exhaustion caring for those infected with the highly contagious disease. When Cheney collapses, Shiloh fears the worst.

She had a dream, but reaching her goal seemed as dark as night . . . Fresh from medical school in the 1860s—and a woman at that—the young Dr. Cheney Duvall struggles to find a position. She has almost given up hope when Asa Mercer turns up. He wants her services to chaperone and care for two hundred brides-to-be on a sea voyage from New York to Washington Territory. Cheney jumps at the opportunity. Accompanied by an unlikely nurse, Shiloh Irons, Cheney finds herself facing an arduous voyage and dangers for which her medical training didn’t prepare her.

In San Francisco, Cheney—with the support of Shiloh—fights with the hospital staff of St. Francis for the fair treatment of their city’s “undesirables.” Then catastrophe strikes, and she discovers that none of her medical education has prepared her for such an overwhelming disaster. With so many severe injuries, who will help her?

Bestselling author Lynn Morris weaves an inspirational Regency era romance rich in period detail. When her stepfather suddenly dies, Valeria Segrave finds she must take charge of her grieving mother and the vast estate which now belongs to her six-year-old half brother, the new Earl of Maledon. Though capable, Valeria is frustrated to find each day brings a new struggle as she tries to establish her authority with servants, stewards, and solicitors-all men. As a young woman with no blood relation to the earl, they are all too ready to dismiss her. Much to her chagrin, she must rely on the assistance of her stepfather's distant kinsman, Alastair, Lord Hylton. He is handsome and noble, and Valeria senses under the veneer of his gentlemanly behavior that she never measures up to his expectations of a refined lady. In light of that, accepting his help and feeling under a burden of gratitude to him is almost unbearable. Even when Valeria leaves the country estate for the glittering London Season, where she gets into a series of escapades, Lord Hylton is always there to witness, criticize, and correct her behavior. But if Alastair insists on engaging in a battle of wits and wills with the lively Valeria, she'll stop at nothing to prove that he's met his match.

A Novel

The Baron's Honourable Daughter

Cheney and Dr. Walker Baird, her colleague from St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco, arrive in Hawaii to try to convince Shiloh Irons to return with them. Though Shiloh believes the Winslows might be his long-lost family, Cheney has discovered some disturbing facts about Bain Winslow and has traveled all this way to warn her friend. She and Walker set out to help Shiloh unravel the mysteries that seemingly surround the Winslows determination to drive him from the island. But with a valuable fish compass and tapestry stolen, the only tangible clues to Shilohs origins, will he ever learn his true identity?

With New Orleans as their destination, Cheney Duvall and her nurse, Shiloh Irons, leave behind the glittering lights of New York City and travel first to Charleston, South Carolina, intending to stay for only a short time. But the purpose of their stop immediately draws them into the plight of this war-torn Southern city, in the painful throes of Reconstruction and carpetbagger policies after the Civil War. As Cheney and Shiloh are embroiled in the political, social, and economic troubles that plague the city, they also are drawn into events related to the beginnings of the Knights of the White Rose, a fraternal order of white supremacists. Cheney and Rissy, her companion, find that they may not only be involved in social conflictstheir very lives are in danger!

Cheney faces two enemiessuperstition and greed . . . Cheney Duvall has proven herself as a true doctor to those 200 brides with whom she traveled to the West. But arrival in Seattle with a string of medical successes during the voyage does not open any doors for her in this frontier townshes just a woman. Returning east, she finds an invitation to a remote spot in the Ozark mountains where there are no doctors at all. But she runs into walls of illiteracy, superstition, and immovable distrust of Yankeesmost especially focused on an edjicated female thinks shes a real doc. How will she overcome centuries of hate and mistrust?

A disturbing letter from Cheneys great-aunts brings her to their New Orleans plantationbut what she discovers is more dangerous than she imagined! Performing rituals and warningsleading to mysterious illnesses and crop failurea cult is trying to scare Cheneys relatives off the land. Can she unearth the groups sudden interest in the plantation before its too late?

Book 2 of Cheney and Shiloh: The Inheritance. Cheney and Shiloh Irons-Winslow return to New York from their honeymoon and enthusiastically begin work--Shiloh at Winslow Brothers Shipping and Cheney in her medical career. But their tranquility is shattered when Cheney discovers that a young doctor she hired as an assistant hides a scandal in his past and possibly murder in his heart! Danger and plot twists abound as the Morrises pen yet another thrilling chapter in the continuing saga of the much-loved Cheney and Shiloh. Sequel to Where to Seas Met.

The Moon by Night (Cheney and Shiloh: The Inheritance Book #2)

In story three, Cheney returns to New York from the Ozark Mountains, where she worked hard trying to care for the mountain folks. New York brings new challenges. Cheney now treats New Yorks wealthy elite as part of a private practice she shares with Devlin Buchanan, the handsome doctor who had once proposed to her. When an outbreak of cholera sweeps the city bringing tragedy in its wake, Cheney must make a choice: can she remain in a privileged cocoon when just miles away there are poor people who desperately need medical treatment?

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