Christmas at Harmony Hill
Subtitle: a Shaker story
By: Ann H. Gabhart
Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
Series: A Shaker story
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781611738766
Subjects: Forgiveness; Abandoned children; Fiction; Parent and child; Shakers; Family relationships; Communities; Large type books; Pregnant women; Mother and child; War; Christmas
Description: It is 1864 and the nation is still torn apart by civil war when Heather Worth discovers she is with child. She has been working as a laundress with her husband's army unit, but when the army gets orders to march south to Tennessee, Gideon insists Heather go home to have their child under safer conditions. Heather agrees, but returns home to another kind of devastation--deaths in the family and a father who refuses to forgive her for marrying a Yankee. With nowhere else to turn, Heather seeks refuge at the Shaker village of Harmony Hill, where her great aunt Sophrena lives. There, after many peaceful years at Harmony Hill, Sophrena is having doubts about her Shaker path. Both women are in need of love and forgiveness--whether given or received. With Christmas coming, can the miracle of new life fill their hearts with unexpected joy?