Secrets of Harmony Grove

MINDY STARNS              

CLARK

HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS

EUGENE, OREGON

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to events or locales, is entirely coincidental.

English translation of Ovid’s
Metamorphoses
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SECRETS OF HARMONY GROVE

Copyright © 2010 by Mindy Starns Clark

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Clark, Mindy Starns.

Secrets of Harmony Grove / Mindy Starns Clark.

    p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-7369-2625-6 (pbk.)

1. Single women—Fiction. 2. Amish—Fiction. 3. Lancaster County (Pa.)—Fiction. 4. Bed and breakfast accommodations—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3603.L366S43 2010

813'.6—dc22

2010024019            

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With love and endless thanks to
Ned and Marie Scannell.
Your friendship and hospitality
help make my books a reality
.

Many thanks to:

My Amazing Dream Team: My sweet husband, John, and our precious daughters, Emily and Lauren

Kim Moore and all of the wonderful folks at Harvest House Publishers

Vanessa Thompson, Alex Cummings, Kendell Weiland, and Shari Weber

Chip MacGregor at MacGregor Literary

Erik Wesner

Kay Justus, Julie Koehn, Chuck Pease, Guy Anhorn, Patricia B. Smith, and Ricky Alford

The Pennsylvania Game Commission

Ned and Marie Scannell, Paul and Amy Cummings, and Gail Anderson

Our FVCN Small Group

The Lower Providence Branch of the Montgomery County Library system

The Upper Shores Branch of the Ocean County Library system

The Mennonite Information Center of Lancaster, Pennsylvania

ChiLibris and Sisters in Crime

The wonderful members of CONSENSUS, my online advisory council

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Epilogue

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