Just Above a Whisper

All Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Cover photo
©
Allison Miksch/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images

Cover by Terry Dugan Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota

JUST ABOVE A WHISPER

Copyright © 2005 by Lori Wick

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wick, Lori.

Just above a whisper / Lori Wick.

      p. cm.—(Tucker Mills trilogy ; bk. 2)

ISBN-13: 978-0-7369-1159-7 (pbk.)

ISBN-10: 0-7369-1159-6

1. Indentured servants—Fiction. 2. Women domestics—Fiction. 3. Housekeepers— Fiction. 4. New England—Fiction. 5. Bankers—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series.

PS3573.I237J87 2005

813.'54—dc22                                                                2005009573

All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

Printed in the United States of America

05  06  07  08  09  10  11  12  /BP-CF/  10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Characters

Prologue

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-One

Epilogue

Glossary

Books by Lori Wick

Acknowledgments

I so enjoy this page. It always gives me great joy to thank the people I love.

      
   Abby, for the covered bridge. It’s extremely fun to have it in each book. Also, thanks for all your help with the names.

      
   Phil, for the seven Rs and all the hours spent on theocentricity.

      
   Jane, you ought to be on the payroll. Your generosity and encouragement are a blessing. Harvest House doesn’t know it, but you might be their best salesperson.

      
   If I have my way, Mary, this will be the last time we have to rush. As always, you hung in there with me. All your perseverance does not go unnoticed.

      
   My Bob, for hanging in there throughout the process. This is book number 33! How did we do it? I know only this: God has used you in the most amazing way. Do you remember what you said that day long ago?
This is good—keep writing
. You know better than anyone that I did exactly that. It would never have happened without you.

  
Characters
  

      
Maddie Randall
—pregnant since the end of May

      
Jace Randall
—her husband

      
Clara
—works for Jace and Maddie

      
Doyle Shephard
—Maddie’s uncle, who owns the general store