from “The Quiet Soldier”
Even in small Ohio villages—where everyone’s business is everyone’s business—secrets still manage to stay hidden. They hide behind jars of homemade applesauce in immaculate pantries, bury themselves in crumbling cardboard boxes hidden in forgotten attics, and cower beneath frayed Amish quilts hoping no one will ever discover them.
I am Amy Stanton, twenty-nine, a ghostwriter, and a professional teller of other people’s secrets. In other words, I make my living helping people write their autobiographies.
I thought I had put Sugarcreek—and my feelings for Lucas—far behind me.
It took only one phone call for me to discover I was wrong.


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