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Fifteen years have passed since a car bomb blew up seven-year-old Ella''s father, a colonel in the Air Force. One minute her daddy was there. The next? He disappeared, leaving only a charred shell of a vehicle and a burnt hubcap clacking down a Turkish street. Gone. As if he never existed at all.

The percussion of her father''s violent death still ricochets in the present. Ella yearns for healing and peace from the emotional shrapnel embedded in her heart. Drawn back to Turkey-a place she swore she left behind-Ella seeks to solve the mystery of who killed her father-and why.

When she meets Murat, a handsome Turkish man, she almost hopes for a new beginning-until she discovers family secrets that torture Murat and shake Ella to her core. Will the war in her soul close her heart to receive or give love-or forgiveness?

Ella faces two choices. Stay anchored to a bitter past or seek a new ending. Can Ella move past old wounds? Or, is the damage too shattering, making healing impossible?

A bad back laid up energetic Aendi Hannah, who''s likely going stir crazy. Poppy and Sadie fix up the rooms for guests staying at the Aendi Hannah''s bed and breakfast in Middlebury, Indiana. While cleaning the guesthouse, Poppy and Sadie discover a key behind a broken baseboard. Who hid the key that looks like a skeleton''s bony finger, and why?

Their crazy quilt clues-an old cast iron key, 70-year-old letters promising a great treasure, a lost, buried time capsule, and a hidden, secret room-lay out no real pattern or direction. The trail grows cold, like the back burner on Aendi Hannah''s big, old gas stove.

Twelve-year-old, amateur sleuth Poppy worries: Will their snoopery discover any new leads to follow? And how will the Old Order Mennonite, junior detectives find time to solve this mystery while attending school, cooking meals, and taking care of a household, plus guests?

Are the mystifying lock and treasure lost forever? Or are Poppy and Sadie on a wild goose chase in this cozy mystery in the children''s Middlebury Mystery series?