Home To Hickory Hollow 
                             The Last Bride 
                      By:BEVERLY LEWIS 

              This book takes place in the home of Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania were Tessie Miller lives of her five older sisters she is last to marry. Her father doesn't want her to marry the man she has her heart set on. His name is Marcus King. Tessie Ann Miller has asked her father why he disapproves but every time she has asked he simply ignores the question.after a while they  think over there plan they decide to elope and keep there marriage a secret anxiously the couple wait for the time to expose there news to the community.But when its time for the barn rising something terrible happens Tessie King is all by her self with Marcus's baby growing in her, she wonders how she will survive and if she will lose the support to the community when the truth comes out in the open about her and Marcus's eloping.

           Tessie King has to face the fact that her love is gone and has to find the strength to keep going for herself and for her baby. Searching for the strength to confess her sins to the church and the council  she finds herself falling in love with Levi Smucker he helps her face the struggles that come her way she finally sees how to confess to the church with the help of Levi Smucker. Will the community support her once she confesses or will they shun her for a period of time.