Leaving Lancaster: A Novel by Kate Lloyd is the 1st in her Legacy of Lancaster series of contemporary literary family drama novels centred around the reunion of two branches of a family, one of which left the Amish community a long time ago, with its descendants just now finding out about their previously-undisclosed heritage, and now struggling to reconcile, free courtesy of Christian publisher David C. Cook.
This has previously been offered free in 2013.
Currently free, probably just for the next couple of days @
B&N (may also drop in the
UK),
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK,
iTunes &
Google Play (both available to Canadians),
ChristianBook (DRM-free ePub available to select countries), and may also be free via other venues listed on the
publisher's web catalogue page, where you can watch the book trailer.
Description
Can a splintered Amish family reconcile?
More than anything else, thirty-something Holly Fisher longs for family.
Growing up in Seattle without a dad or grandparents, she wonders what it would be like to have a heritage, a place of belonging. Holly is furious when her mother, Esther, reveals a long-kept secret: Holly’s grandmother and uncles are still alive and begging Esther to return. And Holly is shocked when she learns that the family she’s never known lives on a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, farm—as part of an Amish community her mother once abandoned.
Guilt-ridden Esther, terrified to see her mother and siblings, begs Holly to accompany her on a visit to Esther’s mother before she dies. But can their journey to a conflicting world heal their emotional wounds and finally bring them home?
Set in the heart of contemporary Lancaster County, Leaving Lancaster explores the power of forgiveness, family reconciliation, and love where least expected.