The Frozen River

Martha Ballard--midwife, herbalist, mother, wife, and champion of the underdog.

This historical fiction novel based on the true story of a midwife in the late 1700s is filled with adventure, love, and a murder. Martha Ballard successfully helped almost a thousand women delivery babies in a time when medicine was much different than today. She kept a daily journal for years and that was used by the author to write this riveting tale.