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That I might've come to know her better, share her life, her dreams. I wished, too, that I could find her journal, the one she'd written while I was growing inside her.., so long ago.

"If only Laura were still here," I said to the darkness. Oh, I was for sure and for certain she could guide me through the maze of my future, because I had no inkling what it might hold.

Still, I had always pined for such an English life as this. And a truly good part of me could hardly wait for every speck of it to unfold.

287 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

pecial thanks to Kathy Torley for her professional medical assistance, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Colorado Springs, and June Heimsoth for her research help.

My appreciation to John and Julie Sullivan--delightful innkeepers of Morgan-Samuels B&B Inn of Canandaigua, New York--for allowing their beautiful, 1810 English-style mansion to be featured on the cover of this book. (Listed in The Innkeeper's Register, I highly recommend it.)

I wish to thank Anne Severance, my prayerful editor and friend, as well as Barbara Lilland and Carol Johnson, who offered their faithful editorial guidance throughout the writing process, along with Dave, my dear husband, encourager and friend, and "second eyes."

288 Return to Amisll Count.

With The Postcard From Bestselling Author Beverly Lewis

Return again to the green hills of Pennsylvania--to the lush farms, narrow lanes, and charming lives of this engaging land.

Rachel Yoder, a young Amish widow, cheerfully helps her parents run a bed-and- breakfast in a quaint Lancaster County town. But inside, she is still struggling to overcome the memory of the tragic accident that claimed her husband and young son.

Philip Bradley, a journalist from New York City, comes to the bed-and-breakfast to research an article on Amish traditions. In his room, he finds an old postcard written in nearly-illegible Pennsylvania Dutch. Together he and Rachel discover the postcard's haunted past and a riveting tale about a community cloaked in secrecy, shattered by betrayal.

As the two become close, the community attempts to protect Rachel from the outsider. Torn by devotion to the people she loves and the awakening feelings in her heart, Rachel searches her past to restore old wounds so that new love might grow.

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LANCASTER COUNTY

The Dramatic Sequel to the Bestseller

The Shunning!

I ratic Lapp's identity had been shattered tlc [ll I I. .momcnt she *'ound the satin babv dress in the attic

of her parents' Amish home. Painftllv

torn f'rom her close-knit communitv C OIFESION in the frightening ordeal called the

shunning, Katie--now Katherine Mavficld--sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has never hown.

Her journey takes her to the pcaceful home of Lydia Miller, where electric lights and telephones set Katherine's mind whirling with "fancy" things, and on to the elaborate Bennett estate in the Finger Lakes region of New York. There she stumbles into a world of compassion and greed, mercy and betrayal--where the plain garb of the Amish is misused to disguisc an evil conspiracy.

Unknown to Katherine, her first love, Daniel, is taking appropriate steps to rcturn to his Amish thmily--and to her. But their worlds may have drifted too far apart to bridge ....

Shunned from her home and alone in a world of strangers, Katherinc Mayfield longs only for the gentle, loving embracc of the woman she hopes to call Mother.

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