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2009 Bethany House Publishers
364 pgs.
Adult Amish Romance
Finished 8/27/18
Goodreads rating: 4.04 - 5894 ratings
My rating: 2.5
Setting: Contemporary PA Dutch country
First line/s: "Honestly, I thought the worst was past."
My comments: This is one heck of a long, drawn out story, so long and drawn out that it became quite boring. It's the first of the series and leaves you pretty much hanging at the end. I think the series is three books - books which could have been made into just one of the smae length. It sure needed chopping! And for being such a close knit clan/community, no one ever - EVER - really talks to each other or shares anything of any kind of importance. Crazy. They sure know how to gossip, though. Is this what the AMish community is really like? I'd love to find out what will happen to the three major portagonists but I refuse to spend the time....
Goodreads synopsis: In the seemingly ordinary Amish home of Grace Byler, secrets abound. Why does her mother weep in the night? Why does her father refuse to admit something is dreadfully wrong? Then, in one startling moment, everything Grace assumed she knew is shattered. Her mother's disappearance leaves Grace reeling and unable to keep her betrothal promise to her long-time beau. Left to pick up the pieces of her life, Grace questions all she has been taught about love, family, and commitment.
Heather Nelson is an English grad student, stunned by a doctor's diagnosis. Surely fate would not allow her father to lose his only daughter after the death of his wife a few years before. In denial and telling no one she is terminally ill, Heather travels to Lancaster County--the last place she and her mother had visited together. Will Heather find healing for body and spirit?
As the lives of four wounded souls begin to weave together like an Amish patchwork quilt, they each discover missing pieces of their life puzzles--and glimpse the merciful and loving hand of God.
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