Hester's Hunt for Home, Book 3

Hester, the strikingly beautiful Native American, was rescued as an infant by an Amish couple and now resides in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She shares a house with Bappie King, another Amish woman, living independent lives in the rapidly growing mid-18th-century city. Bappie runs a highly successful stand at the downtown farmers market, while Hester assists her when she is not out in the city nursing desperately sick children and their impoverished parents with her tinctures, teas, and rubs.

One day, Noah, the first child born to Hans and Kate Zug, the Amish couple who had welcomed Hester during their childless years, returns. Both Hester and Noah are refugees from this Amish family gone awry, having been victims of Hans' deep attraction to the lovely Hester. They have each had their own adult troubles, with Noah leaving his family and the Amish to join the War, and Hester being the widow of William King, an Amish man who was determined to possess his wife and dictate her life.

When Noah invites Hester to join him on a visit to their childhood home, Hester can no longer ignore her buried anger at her adopted father, Hans, or her bitterness toward Annie, his second wife. Nor can she deny the tempting thrill of spending time with the steady but sensitive Noah, who since childhood showed special care for Hester.

Hester and Noah both know that the visit home will force them to face blistering questions: Can they possibly forgive their ill father, Hans, for his misplaced love for Hester and his utter neglect of Noah? Can Hester and Noah risk marriage, especially if they can't forgive Hans? Can Hester trust herself and Noah enough to marry again after her failed marriage to William?

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