Against her better judgment, Sylvia opens the heirloom, not realizing that what she is about to discover will splinter apart her happy life and alter everything for her close-knit Old Order Amish family. With her parents' twentieth anniversary approaching, eighteen-year-old Sylvia Miller finds her father's cherished brass tinderbox left unlocked. Maybe so, but all the same, I wished I knew something more about his past. Mamma says it's like he was born to be Amish. I've marveled at Dat 's ability to accept the Old Ways so readily, considering his modern upbringing. The long-kept secret alters everything for the close-knit family, jeopardizing Earnest and Rhoda's relationship, as well as threatening Sylvia's recent engagement to the preacher's grandson.Ĭan the Millers find a way forward through the turmoil to a place of forgiveness and acceptance? To her amazement, the respected convert to the Old Order reacts as if he has something to hide.īurdened by the weight of his deception, Earnest Miller decides he must reveal the details about his past to his beloved wife, Rhoda. Sylvia's bewilderment grows when her father confronts her about snooping in the box.
Against her better judgment, Sylvia opens the cherished heirloom, not realizing that what she is about to discover will splinter apart her happy life. With her Amish parents' twentieth anniversary approaching, eighteen-year-old Sylvia Miller stumbles across a surprise-the old brass tinderbox her clockmaker father keeps in his Lancaster County shop has been left unlocked.
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