Stitches in Time

September 15, 2019
When a Lancaster County group home is in need of emergency foster home placements, schoolteacher Mollie Graber is thrilled with the chance to make a difference together with the families of Stoney Ridge's Amish community. But unmarried Mollie's enthusiasm is naive, given the difficult realities involved in caring for troublesome twin adolescents. It is not long before the sheriff visits, the school calls, and attacks on Mollie's character begin breaking her spirit, her health, and her chance at love with the soft-spoken, handsome Sam Schock. Fisher continues the Deacon's Family series with a fresh story based on familiar inspirational themes such as love and discipline, pain and joy, and finding the balance in families, marriages, and faith. In its convincing tale of hope and healing, Stitches in Time highlights challenges of the foster care system and builds substantially on Luke and Izzy's story from Mending Fences (2019). It also features the adeptly illustrated Amish community dynamics that fans have come to expect from and love in Fisher's superior inspirational novels.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)