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The photograph, Beverly Lewis

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The photograph

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Beverly Lewis

"In a 1980s Amish community, three sisters face a time of transition in their family, and each searches for a way to define her own future"--, Provided by publisherWith the passing of their widowed mother, Eva's older brother Menno plans to move his growing family into the Eden Valley farmhouse. Surely, Menno reasons, at least one of his three sisters will marry this coming wedding season. Eva does hope to marry, but she isn't sure she wants to give up her sweet shop for the life of a farmer's wife. When younger sister Lily disappears in the night, leaving only a brief note, Eva fears she has been wooed away from the People by an outsider. And when Jed Stutzman, a young Amish buggy maker from Ohio, shows up in Lancaster with a photo of a Plain young woman, Eva's world begins to tilt. She feels powerfully drawn to the quietly charming stranger-- but the woman in the forbidden photograph is no stranger at all...