The Search (Lancaster County Secrets) (Volume 3)

By Suzanne Woods Fisher

Fifteen years in the past, Lainey O'Toole made a split-second selection. She could not have identified that her selection may effect such a lot of. Now in her mid-twenties, she is poised to visit culinary university while her vehicle breaks down in Stoney Ridge, the very Amish city within which her long-reaching selection used to be made, forcing her to stand the shadowed past.

Bess Reihl is lower than delighted to be spending the summer season at Rose Hill Farm along with her huge and intimidating grandmother, Bertha. It quick turns into transparent that she is there to paintings the farm--and work flat out. The hard work is made a little extra tolerable by the point it gives Bess to spend with the good-looking employed hand, Billy Lapp. yet he in simple terms has eyes for a flirty and curvaceous older girl.

Lainey's and Bess's worlds are approximately to collide and the secrets and techniques that come to gentle will surprise them both.

Beautifully written, The Search is a skillfully woven tale that takes readers via unforeseen twists and activates the lengthy kingdom highway towards fact. lovers either outdated and new will locate themselves immersed during this heartwarming--and surprising--tale of younger love, forgiveness, and coming to grips with the past.

A 2012 Carol Award winner for top lengthy modern Novel.

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Cross! ” Lainey shouted, pointing her small finger down the line. the guy sponsored up, amazing, then began to run down the line. Lainey heard a legitimate and became to Rebecca, whose eyes opened midway. “Mein Boppli,” Rebecca whispered. “Meine Dochder. ” My child. My daughter. Lainey seemed round and located a small package, thrown from the buggy. She moved quickly to the package and felt her belly reel. the newborn appeared approximately similar to her personal child sister—same dimension, bald like Colleen, a similar vast blue eyes. The face was once unmarked, however the baby’s chest seemed to have caved in. Her eyes have been broad open, displaying no symptoms of existence. there has been no breath. She didn’t blink in any respect, even if Lainey touched her cheek. She placed her hand at the baby’s tiny chest yet couldn’t locate any heartbeat. She had obvious adequate of farm existence to grasp that this child used to be lifeless. She heard the pony whimper in soreness and shock—she may always remember that sorrowful sound so long as she lived—and she appeared again on the buggy, at Jonah and Rebecca, after which down on the useless child. Nausea rose in her throat and he or she coughed, retching. There weren’t time and again she wanted Simon have been domestic, yet she sought after him right here now, to assist her. She used to be nervous, so anxious, and didn’t understand what to do subsequent. Lainey heard Rebecca name out. How may she inform Rebecca that her child was once useless? Slowly, she walked again to the buggy and observed Rebecca’s eyes flicker open back. abruptly, hoping to offer Rebecca convenience, she tucked Colleen into her palms. “She’s right here, Rebecca,” Lainey lied. “She’s simply fantastic. ” Rebecca’s eyes attempted to open, yet Lainey may see she used to be fading. “Denki,” she murmured. thanks. Lainey was hoping that truck driving force might determine the place the fuel station used to be. She stayed via the buggy, telling Rebecca and Jonah to carry on, that support was once coming. while she heard an ambulance siren within the distance, she exhaled with aid. As she reached right down to decide up Colleen, she had a heart-thudding second. Her child sister regarded up at her with broad blue eyes, oddly serene and peaceable regardless of this grotesque scene. A plan took form in Lainey’s ten-year-old brain. She observed the pink flash of the ambulance’s siren because it grew to become onto the road. Then she kissed her sister so long and collected Rebecca’s child sooner than working into the home. She spent the subsequent hour by way of the window, shaking like a leaf, observing the ambulance employees and the police. She tucked Rebecca’s useless child in her sister’s cradle and curled up within the nook of the previous brown sofa that smelled like mould. whilst she heard a unmarried gunshot ring out—knowing the policeman needed to positioned down the horse—she threw up back. She didn’t sleep in any respect that evening. once sunrise broke, she walked down the line to inform her nearest neighbor, Mrs. Hertz, that her child sister had died within the evening, peaceable as might be, in her sleep. definitely God may punish her for all of those lies she used to be telling. absolutely an individual was once going to determine what she had performed. yet all Mrs. Hertz acknowledged was once, “God used to be merciful, Lainey. He knew no baby must have to undergo Simon Troyer as a father.

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