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THE BISHOP'S DAUGHTER - Wanda E. Brunstetter
Daughters of Lancaster County, Book 3
ISBN: 1-59789-000-6

Tacoma, Washington and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Jimmy Scott turns twenty-one in a few days and he's hoping he can persuade his father to attend church with him. Jimmy has been trying for over nine years to get his father to believe in God, ever since his mother died of cancer, but all his Dad seems to want to do is sit around the house with a beer, or three, in his hand. Jimmy is searching for something in his life, but he's not sure just what that something is until he opens a birthday card and letter from his grandmother. It's the letter that rocks his world. A letter from his mother, written years ago, telling him he's adopted! All these years, and he never knew.

Jimmy is angry at his father, and when he learns the real reason for his Dad's silence he's devastated. Not only is he not adopted, he was stolen, kidnapped from an Amish family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania! Driven to find the truth, and wondering if this is just another of his father's lies, Jimmy travels to Lancaster County to search for his birth parents. He takes a job working for an Amish painter, but how will he find his real family without incriminating his father? Even through his anger, he doesn't want to bring trouble on the man who raised him. Jimmy begins to learn the Amish ways and their language, and he meets his employer's beautiful daughter, schoolteacher Leona Weaver. He knows romance is forbidden between them, but why? After all, he is really Amish, isn't he?

THE BISHOP'S DAUGHTER is a pleasant tale of love and forgiveness and finding God in the toughest of times. Leona has lost her fiance, and his death has her determined to stay forever single. Jimmy is curious about the Amish and their faith; he wants to find his family, but he wants to protect his father too. And when he begins to fall in love with Leona, he's afraid she will never accept him into her life because of their differences. An impossible situation. Can he give up his former life to become Amish? Or will Leona walk away from all that she knows, forever leaving behind her family and friends?

The secondary characters, all necessary to the story, are dynamic and lively. Much of the tale revolves around Jimmy's search for his real family and his father's battle with alcoholism. Leona faces a test of her faith when she begins to question circumstances in the face of adversity, but all the threads come together in a satisfying conclusion. THE BISHOP'S DAUGHTER is the third book of The Daughters of Lancaster County series, but it truly stands alone on its own merits, and is a fine story to finish out your summer.

Diana Risso
Romance Reviews Today

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