By Evening's Light

by Leslie Gould

Overview

Treva Zimmerman finds herself at a crossroads in life after a heartbreaking failed relationship. Returning to Lancaster County to visit her Amish grandparents and elderly aunt, Treva plans to leave her Plain heritage behind for a fresh start in Alaska. Torn between the expectations of her community and her own desires, she seeks to follow her own path—but all that changes when her aunt Rosene suffers a heart attack.

As her aunt recounts her own past—a poignant journey through Cold War Germany and a fervent desire to escape her Plain life to search for a lost love—Treva is determined to discover the whereabouts of Rosene's former sweetheart. Amid the turmoil, their former farmhand Gabe Johnson returns unexpectedly, throwing Treva's plans into further disarray.

While working hard to save the farm and explore her own destiny, Treva confronts her deep-rooted ties to her heritage and must decide if she will embrace her family's legacy or break free from the pressures of her past to forge a life of her own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764240263
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/20/2024
Series:	Amish Memories , #3
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	201,721
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Leslie Gould is a Christy Award-winning and #1 bestselling author of over forty-five novels, including four Lancaster County Amish series. She holds a bachelor's degree in history and an MFA in creative writing. She enjoys church history, research trips, and hiking in the Pacific Northwest. She and her husband live in Portland, Oregon, and have four adult children and two grandchildren. Learn more at LeslieGould.com.

Editorial Reviews

06/10/2024

Gould (This Passing Hour) wraps up the Amish Memories series with a captivating tale of lost love. In 2019, Treva Zimmerman visits her Amish grandparents’ farm in Lancaster, Pa., after breaking things off with a love interest. Seeking a fresh start, Treva intends to take a job at a friend’s event-planning company in Alaska, but her plans change when her great-great-aunt Rosene has a heart attack and Treva stays on the farm to help care for her. As the two women spend time together, Rosene recounts her harrowing upbringing in Nazi Germany, her adoption by a Mennonite family in Lancaster, and her love affair with a neighbor, which ended when she returned from a trip to Germany in the late 1940s to discover he’d disappeared. Treva begins to look into what might have happened to Rosene’s long-lost love, even though she has more than enough to keep her busy, including maintaining the farm with her grandparents and helping Gabe, a family friend who’s returned from serving in Kuwait, reacclimate to life back home. Will Treva follow through on her Alaska plans or stay in Lancaster to care for those she loves? Gould develops Treva’s interior world with depth and nuance, sensitively probing themes of loss, duty, and the past’s hold on the present. This sends the series out on a high note. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly