When the Owl Calls

Judith Early was a privileged only child of an affluent family. She expected this life of comfort to continue when she became engaged to Dr. Jim Bradley, who was completing his surgical residency in Boston. That dream was shattered when he shared plans to practice in an isolated community of the Blue Ridge, a mountainous area in the southern Appalachians.

Disappointed, Judith questions why Jim would pass up a promising partnership to squander his skills in a backwoods, impoverished communit...