For the first time, Deborah, a woman whose life mission is to minister to those who are hurting, is at a loss to help the person who is most precious to her. Deborah herself is in a vulnerable place: her husband, Michael, a soldier just back from his third tour of duty in Iraq, has returned home a changed man. When she asks him why, he reveals that his career was derailed by a long-ago academic scandal but is reluctant to say more.
Deborah is surprised to find that her newest charge’s books have all been removed from the library at Portland State University, where he taught for many years. Kiernan.ĭeborah Porter is a registered nurse and hospice worker, the caregiver of last resort for the cantankerous Barcley Reed, a dying history professor who lives on Oregon’s picturesque Lake Oswego. At once a tantalizing wartime mystery and a moving tale of living, loving and dying, The Hummingbird is the thrilling, heart-wrenching new adventure from Stephen P. From the author of the acclaimed debut novel The Curiosity comes an emotionally resonant tale about a woman who must take care of two wounded men―one, her soldier-husband, just home from the war in Iraq the other, a dying World War II scholar-historian who harbours a long-buried secret.
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