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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Baby on Lena's Porch

The Baby on Lena's Porch

Miller, Hannah

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798191346649
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 9 2026
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lena Wengerd has the truest hands the district midwife has trained in thirty years-and a secret that could cost her everything. Since a fall from the haymow at fifteen, her left leg has grown steadily weaker. Ashamed of becoming a burden, she has hidden the truth from her family, from her mentor, and from Levi Glick, the quiet wheelwright's son who faithfully drives her home after every singing.

Then, on a bitter October night, everything changes. A newborn baby girl is left on Lena's porch in a market basket, with eight penciled words pinned to her blanket.

And before dawn, Levi disappears without a single word of goodbye. By Sunday, the church has done its arithmetic-and reached one devastating conclusion.

While Lena raises the abandoned child and defends the man everyone believes has betrayed her, Levi is forty miles away honoring a promise he cannot explain. The silence meant to protect the people they love is slowly weaving a web neither of them can escape.

As whispered accusations spread through the district, Lena's carefully guarded secret grows harder to hide. And when two long-kept promises collide on one ordinary staircase, the truth threatens to shatter every life it touches.

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