Emma Lapp tries to be the perfect daughter, to earn the
loving embrace of her family and her Amish community in
Pennsylvania. Yet she can’t quite win her mother’s smile—or
her forgiveness for a transgression Emma can’t quite place…
Emma knows she’s a reminder of her mother’s greatest sorrow,
having been born on the same day Mamm lost her beloved
sister. The one bright spot has been the odd trinkets
anonymously left at her aunt’s grave each year on Emma’s
birthday—gifts Emma secretly hides because they upset her
parents. But the day she turns 22, a locket bears a surprise
that sends her on an unexpected journey…
Searching for answers, Emma travels to the English world and
finds a kinship as intriguing as it is forbidden. But is
this newfound connection enough to leave behind the future
she’d expected? The answers are as mysterious, and as
devastating, as the truth that divides Emma from the only
family, and the only life, she’s ever known…