Publisher's Synopsis
"A P. L. Gaus omnibus edition, combining his first two novels, Blood of the Prodigal and Broken English. In Blood of the Prodigal, Jonah Miller, shunned by his Old Order sect of the Amish and cast into the wider world, decides to kidnap his ten-year-old son from the home of the bishop who had exiled Miller a decade earlier. In his desperation to retrieve the boy, the bishop appeals for help to the only "English" men that his sect would ever approve. Professor Michael Branden and Pastor Caleb Troyer had been looking forward to the kind of sleepy rural summer they had enjoyed as boyhood friends growing up in the small college town of Millersburg. Instead, they plunge into the normally closed Amish culture to find the boy. When the kidnapping leads to murder, Branden's friend Sheriff Bruce Robertson enters the investigation. Branden digs through the past to uncover truths that many would prefer to leave undisturbed. Little does he suspect
