

There are secrets being kept by Earnest Miller that have the potential to have a major impact on his family and their standing in their Amish community.

The story takes a long look at what happens when you have the intent to deceive and then cover up your sin of deception. If that’s a pet peeve of yours, then you’ll want to wait about reading this one. The long-kept secret alters everything for the close-knit family, jeopardizing Earnest and Rhoda’s relationship, as well as threatening Sylvia’s recent engagement to the preacher’s grandson.Ĭan the Millers find a way forward through the turmoil to a place of forgiveness and acceptance?”īefore you begin this book: Be aware that the major storylines in this book will be unresolved with a new storyline appearing on the last couple of pages. To her amazement, the respected convert to the Old Order reacts as if he has something to hide.īurdened by the weight of his deception, Earnest Miller decides he must reveal the details about his past to his beloved wife, Rhoda. Sylvia’s bewilderment grows when her father confronts her about snooping in the box.

Against her better judgment, Sylvia opens the cherished heirloom, not realizing that what she is about to discover will splinter apart her happy life. “With her Amish parents’ twentieth anniversary approaching, eighteen-year-old Sylvia Miller stumbles across a surprise–the old brass tinderbox her clockmaker father keeps in his Lancaster County shop has been left unlocked.
