Missing by Shelley Gray
The Secrets of Crittenden County, Book One

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Avon Inspire Paperback Original In the first book in her new Secrets of Crittenden County series, the beloved author delivers another page-turning romance set in Amish country When the body of Perry Borntrager is discovered in an abandoned well, the quiet Amish community of Crittenden, Kentucky, is thrown into turmoil. Perry had been missing for six months, and everyone in the town believed he'd left the order, seduced by the wider world he discoverd during... more

Avon Inspire Paperback Original In the first book in her new Secrets of Crittenden County series, the beloved author delivers another page-turning romance set in Amish country When the body of Perry Borntrager is discovered in an abandoned well, the quiet Amish community of Crittenden, Kentucky, is thrown into turmoil. Perry had been missing for six months, and everyone in the town believed he'd left the order, seduced by the wider world he discoverd during his rumspringa. Overwhelmed by grief, Perry's family and friends and the rest of the stunned commumity struggle to understand how such a terrible tragedy-the first death by mysterious circumstance to strike their placid small town in more than twenty years-could have happened. But the death has not only shaken the town, it has invited the scrutiny of the outside world when a homicide detective arrives to investigate the crime. Lydia Plank, Perry's former girlfriend, and Walter Anderson, an Englisher who was Perry's best friend, are the first suspects in the crime. Drawn together by the suspicions of both the authorities and the community, they discover an unlkley companionship that offers solace, understanding, and the promise of something more during the hardest of days. less

About Shelley Gray

Shelley Shepard Gray is the author of the Seasons of Sugarcreek series, the Sisters of the Heart series, the Families of Honor series, and the Secrets of Crittenden County series. She lives with her family in southern Ohio, where she writes full time.