As someone who gave up the Plain lifestyle herself then returned to operate a B&B, Rachel is able to use her ties to the community to learn more about the missing girls.īut when her search eventually leads to the dark underbelly of the secular world, Rachel finds her own life in dire jeopardy.'Miller has written an exciting tale of mystery, love, and danger that will have readers turning the pages like crazy, wondering what the next big secret to be revealed will be and how Rachel will handle it. He's also troubled over the fate of three other Amish girls who left Stone Mill in the last two years. But if Beth had joined the English world, why was she found dressed in Amish clothing and strangled? Rachel's boyfriend, police detective Evan Park, is getting nowhere with questioning Beth's family. The drowned young woman, Beth Glick, had left Stone Mill and her Old Order Amish life a year ago, causing her to be shunned by her family and her people. When the Amish community of Stone Mill, Pennsylvania, refuses to discuss a murder with the police, it's up to Rachel Mast to bridge the cultural gap and stop a killer from striking again.While swimming in a local quarry, Rachel and her cousin Mary Aaron discover the body of an Amish girl, fully clothed in her white bonnet, floating face down in the water. But as she delves deeper to clear Aaron's name, she discovers secrets that put her own life in danger.

Rachel knows emotions and entanglements run as complicated in the Amish world as outside it. Her relatives won't speak to the police, but they will talk to Rachel-if she puts on a skirt and bonnet. Rachel isn't so sure, especially given the long public feud between the two men. But now a gruesome discovery has been made on her Uncle Aaron's cow pasture-the body of prominent Englisher businessman Willy O'Day.Īaron refuses to hire a lawyer, trusting his innocence, and his faith, to see him through. Instead she runs a B&B and tries to help her community in ways they can't help themselves.

Fifteen years after leaving her Old Order Amish life, Rachel Mast has returned to Stone Mill, Pennsylvania.Ĭorporate success didn't bring true happiness, but Rachel also knows she can never be Amish again. In this unique mystery debut, a shallow grave is found on a Pennsylvania farm, and one woman straddling the Amish and outside worlds must uncover a killer-and create a life on her own terms.

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