If you are a fan of Jodie Picoult, you’ll like Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain, bestselling author of The Midwife’s Confession .

North Carolina, 1960. Newlywed Jane Forrester, fresh out of university or college, is searching for what almost every other females have shunned: a profession.

But life like a interpersonal worker is definately not what she anticipated. Out between the rural Cigarette fields of Elegance State, Jane encounters a world of extreme poverty that is far taken off the middle-class life she has developed with.

But worse continues to be to come. Working with the Hart family members and their fifteen-year-old little girl Ivy, it’s not a long time before Jane uncovers a shocking secret, and is thrust right into a moral problem that puts her career on the line, threatens to dissolve her relationship, and ultimately, determines the fate of Ivy and her family forever.

Soon Jane can be forced to take drastic actions, and in a short time, there is absolutely no turning back.

A companion short tale, The First Rest, is available in eBook.