Miracles & Mysteries of Mercy Hospital Where Mercy Begins is the 1st book in the Miracles & Mysteries of Mercy Hospital fiction series. When they aren’t caring for the patients at Mercy Hospital, Evelyn, Joy, Anne and Shirley quickly discover that the hospital is a place of intrigue, adventure, and amazing miracles. They believe the legend that the hospital is under the protection of a guardian angel, the one portrayed in a large stone statue at the entrance. So, when the famous Mercy Angel statue goes missing in the middle of the night, everyone is scrambling to find out who stole it. The day after it disappears a woman who has a striking resemblance to the statue, and detailed knowledge of the hospital, shows up to begin a new job in the gift shop. Could this new hire have some sort of connection to the missing statue?

When an expectant mother arrives at Mercy Hospital in search of her missing husband,Evelyn and her friends agree to help her find him.Their one clue is a postcard depicting the Mercy Angel statue telling the soon-to-be mother that her FBI-agent husband was in Charleston recently.But everything changes when the baby arrives early-and the absent father is accused of embezzlement. Meanwhile Evelyn is digging into one of the Civil War’s most famous events,the Combahee River Raid led by none other than Harriet Tubman.The role of a viliant river pilot has long been obscured in the mists of history.Can Evelyn prove his heroism so he can be added to a local museum’s list of Freedom Fighters?

When Chris Breck comes to Mercy Hospital in search of answers regarding his family tree, his mother’s dear friend Joy is there to help! Chris desperately needs a kidney transplant,but the cousin who volunteered to donate one turns out to be genetically unrelated to him. In fact,even the DNA evidence shows that Chris is his father’s biological child,he is not related to his father’s parents. Chris’s grandma insists she gave birth to Chris’s father at Mercy Hospital. Did she go home with the wrong baby?Did someone try to cover up the switch? As Joy and her friends try to help Chris solve this latest mystery,they soon learn that Chris’s father may not be the only child born at the hospital whose birth record was falsified. Joy is willing to risk her job to find out the truth,no matter who’s involved?