Suddenly, Ellie sees the chance to defend a client who truly needs her, not just one who can afford her.īut taking on this case challenges Ellie in more ways than one. Single at thirty-nine and unsatisfied with her relationship, Ellie doesn't look back when she turns down her chance to make partner and takes off for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise. But her latest court victory has set the sands shifting beneath her. One hundred miles away, Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway has achieved an enviable, high-profile career. Although Katie denies the medical proof that she gave birth to the child, circumstantial evidence leads to her arrest for the murder of her baby.
And the infant did not die of natural causes.
A police investigation quickly leads to two startling disclosures: the newborn's mother is an unmarried Amish woman, eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher. But that peace is shattered by the discovery of a dead infant in the barn of an Amish farmer. The small town of Paradise, Pennsylvania, is a jewel in Lancaster County - known for its picture-postcard landscapes and bucolic lifestyle.
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