The Doctor's Luck

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"The Doctor's Luck" is a Christian based historical fiction novel. Doctor Tom begins his practice during the Great Depression in a rural Arkansas community. He has plans for a good life until he cannot pay his bills because patients are paying with vegetables and chickens, and a man abandons Betty, a fourteen-year-old pregnant girl in the doctor's yard; the girl has the mind of a three-year-old. The orphanage is full and he is left with a giant baby needing a bath, constant care, parental love, and discipline. Rita, the doctor's housekeeper steps in to help with Betty, but the girl tries everyone's patience. After Betty rips her doll into small pieces, the doctor and Rita worry about how they will keep the girl's unborn twins safe from the girl's tantrums.

Rita's husband, Luke, previously deserted her and his two young boys, but returns after two years to cause problems. Luke makes attempts to kill Rita, steals her property, and abducts one of his sons and sells him to a slave camp. This book contains mystery, suspense, and romance. It also shows kindness and compassion from those who it seems have very little to give.

Author Bio

Nancy Glenn Powell grew up on an Arkansas farm with seven siblings. She is familiar with farm life and work, which helped enable her to write about family and rural life with its joys and hardships. She has seven previously published books. The first three The Ollie's Angel Series are based on her mother's life. Dark Secrets, formerly called Ollie's Angels, is the story of Ollie's youth; it won first place in the 2010 Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc, (OWFI) Mainstream Novel Contest. Angels for All won third place in the 2010 OWFI Nonfiction Contest--it is the story of a young couple's struggle to survive and keep their farm during the Great Depression years. Listen for the Angels, shows the love and hardships of a farm family during the drought years following the Great Depression.

Whom Shall I Fear, Protecting the Innocent, and Pursued The Keepers Series are suspense novels. These books follow the life of a teen after her parents' death--she was abducted by a man who planned to sell her in South America and take her inheritance. This fiction series involves murder, mystery, and romance.

Nancy's last published book, creative nonfiction, Where Grass Grows High, And Slavers' Hounds Don't Howl (self-published in 2019), is based on the life of Samuel Glenn and the survival of his family during Civil War times. Samuel was the author's great, great grandfather. This book won a Readers Favorite 5-Star Award.

Nancy has also won awards for short stories and poetry. She is married and the mother of two children, a member of the Church of Christ, River Valley Writers of Fort Smith, Roundtable Poets of Arkansas, and the Oklahoma Writers' Federation, (OWFI). She retired from the City of Fort Smith to pursue a writing career.