Emma Lapp tries to be the perfect daughter, to earn the loving embrace of her family and her Amish community in Pennsylvania. Yet she canβt quite win her motherβs smileβor her forgiveness for a transgression Emma canβt quite placeβ¦
Emma knows sheβs a reminder of her motherβs 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 auntβs grave each year on Emmaβs birthdayβgifts 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 journeyβ¦
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 sheβd expected? The answers are as mysterious, and as devastating, as the truth that divides Emma from the only family, and the only life, sheβs ever knownβ¦
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