Lucy Flaud is a young Amish women who, at 25, is past the age of courting. She is trying to put things from her past behind her by keeping her self busy by volunteering everywhere she can. She works for both the plain community she lives in as well as the English community. Even though she's doing what she can to help others, even going above and beyond at times, she feels as if she is not doing enough. She feels as if she is to remain single, that with what's happened, she cannot forgive her self and doesn't deserve to be married.
Lucy's father Christian starts attending grief counseling, as a front to the death of his father a few years earlier. While there he meets Dale. Dale is very interested in living "off the grid" and wants to learn about the simple life. Christian invites him home with him to show him the farm and many other things as well.
Dale is intrigued with Lucy and strikes up a friendship with her. A friendship this is frowned upon by the community. Meanwhile Lucy's childhood friend Tobe is very much interested in courting her. He communicates this to her in many different ways and times, but Lucy keeps turning him down as she cannot forgive herself for her past.
Will Lucy learn to forgive herself? Will she ever find love?
Some of Beverly Lewis' books I've read and not enjoyed. Not this one. Once I picked it up and I couldn't wait to get to the end and find out what happened. The story of Lucy's past, and why her father is really attending grief counseling, is slowly played out throughout the book. It keeps you drawn in and intrigued.
This book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are entirely my own.
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