Child of Mine

Child of Mine, Beverly Lewis and husband David’s novel of Kelly Maine’s tireless search for her beloved daughter, opens in a children’s playground. Here Kelly prepares herself to face the outcome of her journey that began with that one last clue; a tiny flame of hope from a private detective’s unpromising report.

As the seconds tick away, Kelly prepares to meet a young girl who matches the profile of her beloved daughter. But the last seconds, like the last miles are always the longest, most difficult and most critical of all.

Beverly Lewis has proved herself consistently reliable as an author able to weave a satisfying story, create endearing characters and develop a relationship between the author and reader in a way that many other Christian novelists seek to emulate.

Her style is to draw the reader into the story from the very beginning. And not only into the story; but into the lives and characters of the players: their hopes and dreams, their anxieties and fears, their loves and passions.

In Child of Mine you are introduced to Jack Livingston; a flight instructor busy raising his eight year old adopted niece, Natalie. Orphaned by an accident that took her parents' lives, Natalie is left in the care of her devoted Amish nanny, when Jack is away on business.

But the first person you meet, waiting in a child’s playground, is Kelly Maine whose own traumatic ordeal began eight years back when her own baby girl was kidnapped. Determined to find her child, Kelly has tirelessly pursued every lead to its bitter end.

And now she is just a few minutes away from meeting the young girl whose profile, she is told, matches that of her missing daughter. Can this be, at long last, Kelly's beloved daughter?

With husband, David, Child of Mine returns Beverly Lewis to the Amish fields and towns of her beloved Lancaster County. The result is a novel that links the unchanging life of Amish Plain Heritage Pennsylvania, with a very modern crisis of the heart; a crisis that will need strength of character, resilience and faithfulness of heart to resolve; and all the skill and compassion of this accomplished Christian novelist pairing.