Always in my Heart in running for national award

Always in my Heart, Mary Ellis' novella from the anthology An Amish Miracle has been nominated for the prestigious National Readers' Choice Award in the novella category. As a writer who was adopted from Children's Services as an infant, Ellis had been curious about women who gave their babies up. Her adoptive parents were the only parents she ever knew. They were as "real" as natural birth parents could ever be. So she set out to craft a tale of a boy who chose a different path....

Always in my Heart should appeal to mothers and daughters, no matter how they came to be.

Hope fears her past will continue to threaten her future.

Hope Bowman believes God is punishing her for giving up her firstborn son when she was a teenager. She's hidden this past from her husband, who is thankful for their daughters but longs for a son. Hope prays desperately, but the son God sends isn't a new pregnancy. It's the fifteen–year–old boy she gave away years ago.