Elizabeth Darrington is a young Amish woman restless for the growing world outside her Amish community. An aspiring song writer and novice guitar player, she longs for the bright lights and glitter of the stage. Defying her family traditions she leaves her home in search of musical stardom in New York City. But the young naove Amish woman soon finds out just how hard dreams can be to fulfill. Elizabeth learns a lesson about families, true friendship and unconditional love. The paths she
Thomas James was born in 1946 and lived most of his life in Joliet, Illinois. He was the author of Letters to a Stranger. His poetry appeared in magazines and anthologies, including North American Review, Poetry, and Poetry Northwest, which awarded him the Theodore Roethke Prize in 1969. In 1974, at the age of twenty-seven, he died shortly after the original publication of his only book.