This book is the second in Beverly Lewis's Heritage of Lancaster County series. This story begins with Katie Lapp changing her name to her birth name of Katherine Mayfield and beginning her search for her birth mother.
What Katie finds is that her birth mother living in New York, and the rich heiress to a large estate is dying of MS. Unbeknownst to Katherine, while she is searching for her mother, her mother was searching for her.
Katherine's search hits a roadblock though when she runs into Dylan Bennett the husband of her mother. Dylan has invested a lot of his wife's inheritance in bad business deals and has lost a lot of her money. Knowing that she is dying his efforts are now concentrated on swindling her out of her estate after finding that she secretly changed her will and left it to her long lost daughter.
Dylan then devises a plan that includes hiring an actress to pose as Katie Lapp with the mission of having the estate signed over to her, and then eventually to him. But, he is not prepared for the real Katie Lapp showing up at his door step and being hired on as the new cook. Nor is he prepared for the guilt that his hired actress feels for trying to trick his wife, especially after she realizes that the new cook is indeed Laura's real daughter.
Not only with this turn of events keep you reading this book non stop, but the sudden reappearence of Katherine's long lost love who has been presumed dead for the last five years will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Interspersed throughout the story we are also able to follow the story of Katherine's Amish family, as her mother near goes out of her mind, and her best friend who goes into a deep depression over not being able to contact her friend who is like a sister.
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