Friday, November 30, 2012

Plain Pursuit by Beth Wiseman

     Plain Pursuit by Beth Wiseman is the second book in the "Daughters of the Promise" series. The main characters, Carley and Noah, both have been hurt in the past. With Carley, she is a journalist and recently was in an accident where her mom died and Carley was injured in the accident which left her with an inability to have children. She decided to go to visit her dear friend, Lillian in Amish country. Noah grew up Amish, was baptized in the faith, then changed his mind about his calling. He felt God calling him to become a doctor. So, he left home and went to school. Due to Old Order Amish customs, Noah was shunned. The only way to undo this was to return to the faith. In order to return, he would have to give up his calling to be a doctor. He could not do that.
     So this story has a few twists and turns as Lillian and her husband, Samuel, have a son named David. David is very sick and needs a doctor. As you can guess, Dr. Noah comes into the picture. He just happens to be the shunned uncle who is the only one that is compatible to donate a kidney.  So needless to say many decisions had to be made by Samuel's family to allow Noah to re-enter their lives and to what extent this would be allowed.

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