The Tinderbox encompasses the lives of the Miller family from Hickory Hollow. This book is not fast-paced but written with precision and depth for the development of each character. I immediately wanted to know what was inside of the Tinderbox just from the front cover.

The Tinderbox is very suspenseful from the start. The way she writes with such detail makes each setting richly atmospheric which holds the reader’s attention. I am such a great fan of Beverly Lewis and her novels. The long-kept secret alters everything for the close-knit family, jeopardizing Earnest and Rhoda’s relationship, as well as threatening Sylvia’s recent engagement to the preacher’s grandson.Ĭan the Millers find a way forward through the turmoil to a place of forgiveness and acceptance? To her amazement, the respected convert to the Old Order reacts as if he has something to hide.īurdened by the weight of his deception, Earnest Miller decides he must reveal the details about his past to his beloved wife, Rhoda. Sylvia’s bewilderment grows when her father confronts her about snooping in the box. Against her better judgment, Sylvia opens the cherished heirloom, not realizing that what she is about to discover will splinter apart her happy life. With her Amish parents’ twentieth anniversary approaching, eighteen-year-old Sylvia Miller stumbles across a surprise-the old brass tinderbox her clockmaker father keeps in his Lancaster County shop has been left unlocked.

The tinderbox beverly lewis