And lying on the matted, stained hay between her legs was a baby.Īaron Fisher rolled over beneath the bright quilt to stare at the clock beside the bed. There was a funnel of pressure, as if she were being turned inside out and she remembered how she and Hannah used to squeeze through the hole in the barbed wire fence by the creek's edge, pushing and angled, all knees and grunts and elbows, until by some miracle they'd tumble through. She sank her teeth into the rolled hem of her nightgown. She concentrated on the hides of the Holsteins until their black spots shimmied and swam. The swollen cows rolled their blue moon eyes in her direction, then turned away quickly, as if they knew better than to bear witness. Lowering herself to the hay in the far corner of the calving pen, she drew up her knees.
She was panting by now, her legs shaking like willow twigs. The barn cat yowled when she stepped inside. Ignoring the pain that rippled and receded, she tiptoed barefoot into the night.
But once again, there was someone on the other side, fighting to be free.Īs the fist in her belly pulled tighter, she bit her bottom lip. There was no ice beneath her palms, just the tangled sheets of her bed. She could see Hannah's eyes, wide and milky could feel Hannah's nails scraping. She had often dreamed of her little sister floating dead beneath the surface of the ice, but tonight, for the first time, she envisioned Hannah clawing to get out. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. And as she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within - to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past reenters her life. Delving deep inside the world of those who live "plain," Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms.
When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. From the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country - and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm.
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