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Tilly and Ruth, two sisters raised in the Amish community of Lancaster County, leave their Plain life behind. Tilly marries an Englisher and moves on, while Ruth remains single and still haunted by a failed Amish courtship. When the sisters return for their parents’ landmark wedding anniversary, unfinished feelings and questions of faith stir. As past and present collide, they must decide whether to embrace a future illuminated by the life they once left behind.
The story explores themes of forgiveness, cultural identity, and the struggle to reconcile the past with the promise of new beginnings.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Christian Fiction/Contemporary Christian Fiction
Authors: Beverly Lewis
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