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. . .Heritage of Lancaster County
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By Beverly Lewis
#1: The Shunning (1997)
Bethany House Publishers
When Katie Lapp discovers a satin baby dress hidden in her parents' attic, she's mystified. Why would her Amish mother, a plain and simple woman, treasure such a "worldly" thing? The truth shatters Katie's sheltered world as she finds that she's an outcast in her community. A poignant story that offers a fascinating glimpse of Amish life.
#2: The Confession (1997)
Bethany House Publishers
Katie Lapp's identity had been shattered the moment she found the satin baby dress in the attic of her parents' Amish home. Painfully torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal called the shunning, Katie -- now Katherine Mayfield -- sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has never known. Her journey takes her to the peaceful 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 disguise an evil conspiracy. Unknown to Katherine, her first love, Daniel, is taking appropriate steps to return to his Amish family -- and to her. But their worlds may have drifted too far apart to bridge ...
#3: The Reckoning (1998)
Bethany House Publishers
A powerful conclusion to The Shunning and The Confession, the third novel in the Heritage of Lancaster County series chronicles the life of Katherine Mayfield, the new Mistress of Mayfield Manor who has been shunned from the life on the plains that she once knew. In this novel of romance and adventure, Katherine is forced to choose between Justin Wurth, her handsome and rich suitor, and Daniel Fisher, her long-lost love. In so doing she must make a choice between her simple Amish roots, and the opulent English life she has always dreamed of having.
