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  • Fire in the Night

  • By: Linda Byler
  • Narrated by: Erin Moon
  • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
  • 3.4 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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Fire in the Night

By: Linda Byler
Narrated by: Erin Moon
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Summary

One barn fire might be an accident, the Lancaster County Amish community believes. But two barns burning just weeks apart is suspicious. Sarah Beiler wants to protect her family, even though they don't like Matthew, her new boyfriend. Book one in Amish author Lydia Byler's series Lancaster Burning.

The Amish community of Lancaster is being terrorized by barn fires. David and Malinda Beiler's barn was the first to go. The clues are sparse, but Levi, the Beilers' oldest son, happened to be awake in the middle of the night and spotted a white vehicle driving past the house with its lights off. Sarah, David and Malinda's daughter, observes her parents' agony. Not only is she afraid and wishing she could protect her parents, she's entranced by the flirtatious Matthew Stoltzfus. He's dating her friend, Rose, but when he tenderly bandages Sarah's hand after she burned it at the barn raising, she wonders who he's really interested in. When a second Amish barn burns for suspicious reasons, the Amish grow more restless. "We're too quiet too much of the time," a group of Amish men tell David Beiler, their minister. Seriously considering police protection, the increasingly tense community questions their traditional, nonresistant approach to violence. Sarah now finds herself at odds with her mother over her choice of boyfriends and uncertain about how to respond to the attention of Lee, a newcomer to Lancaster. Not only that, she wonders if her dad is a wise enough leader, as her community reels from within and without. Everyone is on edge, as the losses mount and suspicions undo the usual steadiness of these people.

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narration good, story poor

found this story very disappointing and somewhat depressing, struggled through the book hoping it would improve, but sadly it didn't.

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Far fetched and not remotely based on fact

The notion of an Amish family speaking to the cops about the source of the fire is not an Amish thing , also no farmer chains cows up in a barn at night so this was a bizarre inclusions. The Levi man was annoying and didn’t seem to represent someone with downs and even with a historical nod using offensive language was unwelcome

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Young love arsonist family life

Family life from young to old disabled and loss of property due to arson and fear following realistically hamdled

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