![]() ![]() Ada is not only kicked out of her husband’s house, but Sheriff Branch, once a family friend, reveals that she has been accused of witchcraft after a few women in the town miscarry their pregnancies.ĭozens of sheriffs descend upon Hole in the Wall to arrest the Gang. But when her friends suspect that she is sleeping with someone else, the rumors of her infidelity spread quickly. Ada has sex with him in secret, hoping to get pregnant and pass it off as her husband’s child. Her mother sets her up with a man proven to have gotten other women pregnant. Because society at this time doesn’t understand female and male biology, the blame for infertility will fall only on Ada. Ada’s mother knows the potential danger that will come to her daughter if she can’t get pregnant: Barren women are often accused of witchcraft and hanged. Fairchild is reeling from a recent epidemic that killed off many children, so procreation is even more important than usual. Her life seems complete, until she fails to get pregnant. Though she doesn’t know her father, Ada has younger sisters and a loving mother. ![]() She is learning how to midwife from her well-respected mother. ![]() She is married to a lovely boy from a nice family. The year is 1895, and 17-year-old Ada has the perfect life in Fairchild, a conservative Christian town in the American West. ![]()
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