Lost in Plain Sight
By Marta Perry
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Leah Miller’s peaceful life as a member of the Spring Township Amish church shatters when she’s accused of theft from an Englisch home in which she works. Even if she is not charged, if the crime is never solved, she will live under the shadow of the theft and may never be able to participate fully in her Amish community. Josiah King, friend of Leah’s brother, is drawn into helping Leah—and discovers the “little sister” he’d always tolerated has grown into a strong, appealing woman.
But what future can they have together if suspicion makes Leah an outcast? As they attempt to learn the facts behind the accusation, danger grows around them. It’s only through their trust in each other and the support of a faithful Englisch friend that Leah and Josiah can find their way through a tangled, dangerous maze to the truth . . .
Praise for the series
“Realistic, nuanced . . . Perry’s own Pennsylvania Dutch heritage lends a pleasant verisimilitude to the details of Amish life.” —Publishers Weekly
“A suspenseful, continually moving plot.” —Fresh Fiction
Marta Perry
Marta Perry realized she wanted to be a writer at age eight, when she read her first Nancy Drew novel. A lifetime spent in rural Pennsylvania and her own Pennsylvania Dutch roots led Marta to the books she writes now about the Amish. When she’s not writing, Marta is active in the life of her church and enjoys traveling and spending time with her three children and six beautiful grandchildren. Visit her online at www.martaperry.com.
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Lost in Plain Sight - Marta Perry
Chapter One
Leah Miller’s brother had dropped her off at the home of Geneva Morgan to work that morning just in time to keep the older woman from scaling one of the apple trees in her orchard. Unlike the other Englisch women for whom Leah worked, who expected their Amish helper to get quietly on with the cleaning, Mrs. Morgan never ceased to surprise her.
Leah looked with satisfaction at the canning jars filled with applesauce that now lined the kitchen counter.
That looks fine, doesn’t it?
Geneva shed the white apron that enveloped her small form, revealing a pair of denim jeans and a flowered top that fluttered when she moved. Her face was lit with the same satisfaction Leah felt.
Ja, it does.
Leah wiped her hands on the kitchen towel. A gut day’s work.
We deserve a glass of iced tea and a jumble cookie.
Geneva ran a hand over her short gray curls, setting her earrings jingling. She had to be older than Leah’s mother, but she was as slight and lively as a teenager, and despite her age and position, she often dressed like one, too. Do you have time before your brother comes for you?
Leah gave the stove a final wipe. Applesauce did stick so when it splattered. Abe might be late today. He has a lot to do with a new baby in the house.
She smiled at the thought of her first nephew, not even a month old.
It’s hard to believe Abe is married and a daadi already,
Geneva said.
She nodded. It seems only yesterday we were playing hide-and-seek in the cornfield.
And what about you?
Geneva set a pitcher of iced tea and two glasses on the pine kitchen table. Do you have a come-calling friend?
Leah shook her head, not meeting Geneva’s gaze. Not yet.
Geneva’s eyes were too sharp, and sometimes it seemed everyone in the township, Amish and Englisch, confided in her. She didn’t want Geneva guessing at her secret hopes.
I hear Josiah King is coming home after all this time out west.
Geneva’s voice was perfectly innocent. I’m sure your brother will be glad to see his best friend again.
Ja, he will.
Leah could feel the warmth in her cheeks. Foolish, to cherish hopes that one day Josiah might look at her and see a woman grown instead of his friend’s pesky kid sister.
Geneva was taking hand-size jumble cookies from the cookie jar on the counter when Leah heard the clop of hooves and the jingle of harness, followed by footsteps on the two stairs up to the back door. They both glanced out the window.
But it wasn’t Leah’s brother. It was Josiah King.
Why don’t you open the door, Leah?
Geneva’s eyes twinkled. I’ll get out another glass.
Leah smoothed her apron down over the skirt of her dress, thankful that she’d happened to put on the green dress and apron that matched her eyes this morning and hoping her hair hadn’t strayed from under the white organdy kapp on the back of her head.
She swung open the door. "Ach, Josiah, it is you. I didn’t think to see you here at Mrs. Morgan’s house."
She had to look up farther than she used to in order to see Josiah’s frank, open face and his deep blue eyes. Broader and taller than when he’d gone as an apprentice carpenter with his uncle’s construction business in Indiana, he seemed to fill the doorway.
Little Leah. But you are not so little anymore, ain’t so?
He saw Geneva behind her and snatched off his summer straw hat, revealing sun-streaked brown hair. Mrs. Morgan, it’s wonderful gut to see you.
Come in, come in.
Geneva’s voice was warm with welcome. Have you come to pick up Leah?
Josiah stepped inside, his arm brushing Leah’s as he moved past her. Ja, I have. I stopped to see Abe first thing when I got here today, and he was having such a struggle with that reaper of his that I said I’d pick up Leah for him.
You have time for a glass of tea, don’t you?
Geneva was already pouring the iced beverage into tall glasses. We’ve had a warm afternoon for late September.
Denke.
Josiah accepted the glass she held out. How are you—
His question cut off when the front doorbell shrilled loudly over and over, as if someone had planted a finger on the button and kept it there. A flicker of annoyance crossed Geneva’s face.
Help yourselves.
She waved at the plate of cookies. I’ll just see who that is.
She hurried out the wide-planked hallway toward the front door.
Josiah grinned at Leah, his familiar smile making her heart seem to flip over. Abe tells me you have quite a business working in different Englisch houses. Are you liking that?
It’s always a pleasure to komm here to help Geneva.
Some of the others weren’t so pleasant. Like Mrs. Grayson, where she’d been yesterday. But some people act as if I can’t be trusted to clean the house.
Humility, little sister,
Josiah chided, laughter in his eyes.
Humility, that most Amish of virtues. She had