Ties That Bind

TIES THAT BIND

PUBLISHED BY WATERBROOK PRESS

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Colorado Springs, Colorado 80921

All Scripture quotations or paraphrases are taken from the King James Version.

The characters and events in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons or events is coincidental.

Special thanks to Hollie Rivers for sharing her knowledge.

Trade Paperback ISBN 9781601426994

eBook ISBN 9781601427007

Cover design and photography by Kelly L. Howard

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Published in the United States by WaterBrook Multnomah, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Woodsmall, Cindy, author.

Ties that bind : a novel / Cindy Woodsmall. — First Edition.

pages cm. — (The Amish of summer grove ; 1)

ISBN 978-1-60142-699-4 (paperback) — ISBN 978-1-60142-700-7 (electronic)

I. Title.

PS3623.O678T54 2015

813'.6—dc23

2015021602

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