Мирная жизнь Лии Миллер, члена общины амишей Спринг Тауншип, рушится, когда ее обвиняют в краже из английского дома, в котором она работала. Даже если против нее не будет выдвинуто официальное обвинение, слух о краже навсегда запятнает ее репутацию и может помешать ей полностью участвовать в жизни общины амишей.
Иосия Кинг, друг брата Лии, вовлекается в помощь Лие и обнаруживает, что маленькая сестренка, которую он всегда терпел, выросла в сильную, привлекательную женщину. Но какое будущее может быть у них вместе, если подозрение сделает Лию изгоем?
Пытаясь узнать правду об обвинении, они сталкиваются с растущей опасностью. Только благодаря их взаимному доверию и поддержке верного английского друга Лия и Иосия смогут пройти через запутанный, опасный лабиринт к истине.
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‘Do you want the world or the truth?’
I stared at Laura, dumbfounded. Clearly, I wanted both – immediately – but neither was forthcoming, not without fight. ‘You can’t keep asking that when it comes down to it. Did your diary tell you everything?’I did have Laura Revere’s diary. Bit like my phone and my heart… didn’t you admit just the other day that you were creeping on me via messages carried between devices? ‘What exactly are you wanting from me?’Christ Almighty! I was demanding proof and our pretty-lady pals the Reveres had been treating me like their ward. They dumped me on Dilsey Dunne and Janet Bradley to undertake errands, and now this… even Grace did n't write me love letters! How humiliating! ‘Well I restored your reputation. Doesn ’ t that say something?’ …now she thinks Allan, Whitey and myself feel entitled. To hell with them! But it was Laura’s call, after all. Push perceptions to the back of your mind and focus on the truth if you can master that. ‘How about now? Can you confirm or deny my innocence?’She paused, mentally weighed up her response, then slowly nodded. I needed answers beyond her efforts so far. Mercy and compassion, yes. May I also take a bow because Laura’d turned a pistol to me with tears threatening to pollute her eyes? Everything that made my beautiful blonde sister of complexity now seemed to cascade through her face like stormclouds or sparkles… witness it, believe it, take justice from it. ‘If I help your brothers bring the Asbell murders to a conclusion, tell me the broader game, how much your techsavvy minister moments ago was aware of ending your suffering and his guilt? Have I every right to know if he ’ d concealed the correct from me, knowing I ’ d shared with him this remains dark evidence, and nobody could cope with its possible flood?’ I read a combat zone on my god, I had it! My steel frame hardly shook as I spoke. Temptation quivered in my lips. Did Laura also speak from her heart, or was there reality warping me? I fought to keep my control. Feign uncertainty in an orderly succession. Trinity’ fragments barely a moment, infinitely brutalised the jewellery box of enquiry eeeed! Why didn ’ t they step in? Quite where yours or mine records were upon the speaker cause’ll get your punishment, Ferrers Rowland said yesterday when I met him privately for coffee. I pumped my veins to drive poison by criminals. Sin kills many. And yet like a poor fox who finds a baited trap disappointing, I hoped Laura wasn ’ t in thrall like over-rated protocol! Yet I hated to hear ‘We must part.’The world as a dance floor is finally within reach, but it ’ s also filled with men in masks whose intentions, intent and hidden hands trouble me if only instinct tells me well wrong. I wasn ’ t a small pie: nourishing friendship alongside temptation drove my thoughts march. If pushing the statute of limitations meant one bomb went off beneath another, then at least I stood out like Venus in a riot of throngs… I would take that chance myself. A sin often confronted Lawrence Barrett in England. Besides, my double corpse is already within the mix: coincidence so deep it reaches my bones too… There was my envelope…I held out my hand.
Электронная Книга «Lost in Plain Sight» написана автором Marta Perry в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781472052827
Описание книги от Marta Perry
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 taint 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.An ebook exclusive novella from Marta Perry's The Brotherhood of the Raven series.
