When Ellie learns that a cousin she did not even know she had has been accused of murder, she immediately refuses to become involved.

However, moments after her arrival, Ellie's aunt becomes embroiled in a private family tragedy. Ellie goes to the countryside to visit her aunt. Ellie decides to leave town for a time, to give herself the space she needs to decide where her life should go from this point on. Not only this, but Ellie is no longer satisfied with her lover, either. Ellie no longer finds satisfaction in defending guilty clients.

However, instead of being excited about this fact, Ellie feels sick. The girl is quickly treated at a local hospital and arrested when medical evidence proves she is the mother of the infant.Įllie Hathaway has just finished the biggest case of her life. When the teenage daughter of the farmer appears to be suffering the after affects of giving birth, despite her denials, the detective smells murder. At first it seems to be a run of the mill assignment, but the detective quickly finds inconsistencies in the statements of the family who live on the farm. Plain Truth is a novel of love, trust, and honesty that will touch the hearts of all who read it.Ī baby is found dead inside the barn of an Amish dairy farm. Through the course of the trial, Ellie and Katie become friends and through each other begin to see certain truths about themselves that help them to find happiness in their lives that seemed impossible to achieve. Despite her personal revulsion to what Katie has done, Ellie Hathaway takes her case as a favor to their shared aunt. Katie's background makes it difficult to believe she would do something so heinous as kill her innocent newborn son, but the evidence seems to point in that direction. Plain Truth is a novel about an Amish girl who finds herself in the center of a murder trial and the lawyer who comes to her rescue.

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