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This heartwarming prequel to The Shunning is a tender story of love belonging and the courage to move forwardAfter her widowed father remarries nineteenyearold Clara Bender is no longer needed to help run his household Marriage seems like her best hope of moving out but there are few young men in her tiny Indiana Amish community When she comes across letters from her mothers aunt Ella Mae Zook she sets off to visit Lancaster Countys Hickory Hollow to decide where her future liesElla Mae is not quite ready to move from the farmhouse where she and her recently deceased husband spent over fifty happy years but her children are eager to resettle her making Claras visit seem like an answer to prayer The two women form a warm bond while restoring an heirloom wedding quilt and sharing their lives with Ella Mae confiding about a tragedy from her courting years Eventually Ella Mae suggests Clara stay for the summer allowing Ella Mae more time with her and giving Clara an opportunity to meet the areas eligible young men But when the unexpected happens will Clara find where her heart truly belongs