Where the Heart Remains
Catherine Miller
Rebekah Beiler has known Samuel Esh her whole life — and kept her distance for half as long. The feud between their families is older than either of them, its origins buried in a past nobody will discuss and a wrong nobody will name.
But when a community barn raising makes careful distances harder to keep, and long-held secrets begin to surface, Rebekah finds herself asking questions that those around her would prefer she left alone. And Samuel, quiet and patient and certain in ways he has never permitted himself to say, is asking them too.
The truth, when it comes, is more complicated than either of them expected. Innocent men made wrong choices. Proud men stayed silent. And two families have been paying the price ever since.
Set against the rhythms of an Amish community in Lancaster County — the singings and the barn raisings, the quilt shop and the woodworking shed, the frost-silver fields of a Pennsylvania winter — Where the Heart Remains is a story about inheritance and forgiveness, about the weight of other people's pride, and about two people who have been finding their way toward each other since they were children in an apple orchard.
Some things take time to resolve.
Some things are worth the wait.
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