num_pages: 352
description: Faith faces an impossible situation: Should she do the right thing and bring heartache to nearly everyone she knows or deny her true self and always wonder . . . what if?Sixteen-year-old Faith has worked full-time in her parents restaurant since she finished eighth grade. She loves her Amish communityand the romantic attentions of her longtime friend Gideon.When her sister seems to be getting too friendly with Englischers and her parents are in a buggy accident Faith wants to escape into her dream of joining the church and getting married.But then a local newspaper runs a story about a child named Adriana who was kidnapped fifteen years earlier and everything Faith has held true comes into question.Suddenly the community Faith has known her whole life seems unreal. Can she even trust her own family? And how will she ever find home again if she no longer belongs in the world she knows best?
language: English
title: Abiding Mercy
publisher: Thomas Nelson