02218cam a2200397 4500 284089438 TxAuBib 20170202120000.0 970619s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97021118 9781556618673 pbk. 1556618670 pbk. 9781568656410 1568656416 9780764204647 pbk. 0764204645 pbk. (OCoLC)37187394 TxAuBib Lewis, Beverly, 1949- The confession / by Beverly Lewis. Minneapolis, MN : Bethany House, 1997. 286 pages ; 21 cm. Heritage of Lancaster County ; 2 Katie Lapp's identity had been shattered the moment she found the satin baby dress in the attic of her parents Amish home. Painfully torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal called the shunning, Katie - now Katherine Mayfield - sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has never known. Her journey takes her to the peaceful home of Lydia Miller, where electric lights and telephones sets Katherine's mind whirling with "fancy" things, and on to the elaborate Bennett estate in the Finger Lakes region of New York. There she stumbles into a world of compassion and greed, mercy and betrayal - where the plain garb of the Amish is misused to disguise an evil conspiracy. Unknown to Katherine, her first love, Daniel, is taking appropriate steps to return to his Amish family - and to her. But their worlds may have drifted too far apart to bridge ... Shunned from her home and alone in a world of strangers, Katherine Mayfield longs only for the gentle, loving embrace of the woman she hopes to call Mother. 20170202. Amish Fiction. Adoptees Fiction. Mothers Fiction. Christian fiction, American. Lancaster County (Pa) Fiction. Finger Lakes (N.Y.) Fiction. Domestic fiction. Christian fiction. Heritage of Lancaster County ; 2. TXCLY