Mother's Tears (Oregon Trail, #6)

Her father gave her baby away moments after his birth.

Mariam Kellen was only seventeen when her father ignored her protests and took her baby from the midwife before she could hold him. Then he forced her to leave their Mississippi home and follow the Oregon Trail 2,000 miles away so she could never find the infant her heart longed for. Six years later, she teaches school in the small town of Willtown, Oregon, and she's never stopped looking for the baby she still loves, although she knows ...