My Brother's Crown

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Authors: Mindy Starns Clark

Books by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould

C
OUSINS OF THE
D
OVE

My Brother's Crown

T
HE
W
OMEN OF
L
ANCASTER
C
OUNTY
S
ERIES

The Amish Midwife

The Amish Nanny

The Amish Bride

The Amish Seamstress

Other Fiction by Mindy Starns Clark

T
HE
M
EN OF
L
ANCASTER
C
OUNTY

(
WITH
S
USAN
M
EISSNER
)

The Amish Groom

The Amish Blacksmith

The Amish Clockmaker

T
HE
M
ILLION
D
OLLAR
M
YSTERIES

A Penny for Your Thoughts

Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels

A Dime a Dozen

A Quarter for a Kiss

The Buck Stops Here

S
TANDALONE
M
YSTERIES

Whispers of the Bayou

Shadows of Lancaster County

Under the Cajun Moon

Secrets of Harmony Grove

Echoes of Titanic

(with John Campbell Clark)

HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS

EUGENE, OREGON

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Cover by Garborg Design Works, Savage, Minnesota

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The authors are represented by MacGregor Literary, Inc.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

MY BROTHER'S CROWN

Copyright © 2015 Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Clark, Mindy Starns.

My brother's crown / Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould.

pages ; cm. – – (Cousins of the Dove ; Book 1)

ISBN 978-0-7369-6288-9 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-7369-6289-6 (eBook)

1. Family-owned business enterprises—Fiction. 2. France—History—17th century—Fiction. I. Gould, Leslie, – II. Title.

PS3603.L366M9 2015

813'.6—dc23

2015015758

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Dedication

Mindy

For the founders and many members of the Starnes/Starns Triennial Association

You keep our history alive—and our family connected.

Leslie

For Anaïs Edom,

a wonderful young woman of faith and strength

Thank you for your dear friendship through these many years.

Love and faithfulness meet together;

righteousness and peace kiss each other.

P
SALM
85:10

Contents

Books by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould

Dedication

Historical Notes

Prologue

Chapter One: Renee

Chapter Two: Renee

Chapter Three: Renee

Chapter Four: Catherine

Chapter Five: Catherine

Chapter Six: Catherine

Chapter Seven: Catherine

Chapter Eight: Catherine

Chapter Nine: Renee

Chapter Ten: Renee

Chapter Eleven: Catherine

Chapter Twelve: Catherine

Chapter Thirteen: Catherine

Chapter Fourteen: Catherine

Chapter Fifteen: Renee

Chapter Sixteen: Catherine

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