At the southernmost tip of New Jersey lie the resort town of Cape May and its sparkling sandy beaches, sheltering the Delaware Bay. Formed by melting glaciers thousands of years past, the Delaware River flows from its headwaters to spill into the Delaware Bay. And for thousands of years, fragments of quartz rock have ridden the river, plucked from the mountains lining its banks. Polished and buffed as they tumble along, these rock particles dazzle...

"In the early days of an easter Pennsylvania Amish settlement, a young Amish couple finds a Lenape infant wrapped in deerskin and left by a spring. Hans and Kate Zug name the child Hester, cherishing her despite the pointed question of Hans's mother--'What makes you think you can raise her Amish, with her Indian blood?' Hester glows as she grows, an unmistakable beauty both inside and out, and charms her adoptive Amish community. But when an elderly...

"Hester, the startlingly beautiful, young Native American who was rescued as an infant by an Amish couple, now lives in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. And then one day, Noah comes back; Noah, the first child born to Hans and Kate Zug, the Amish couple who had welcomed Hester during their childless years. Both Hester and Noah are refugees from this Amish family gone awry. Both were victims of Hans's deep attraction to the lovely Hester. Two hurt...

Hester on the Run: "An Amish couple adopts a Native American infant and name her Hester, despite the criticism of certain community members. Hester glows as she grows, an unmistakable beauty both inside and out, but she begins to realize she doesn't quite fit in. When her own father becomes a threat, Hester is forced to flee from the Amish community, the only home she has ever really known." -- Page [4] cover. Which Way Home?: "Hester finds herself...