Together is All We Need

T
OGETHER
I
S
A
LL
W
E
N
EED

Books by Michael Phillips

Is Jesus Coming Back As Soon As We Think?
Destiny Junction
•
Kings Crossroads
Make Me Like Jesus
•
God, A Good Father
Jesus, An Obedient Son
Rift in Time
•
Hidden in Time
The Stonewycke Trilogy
(with Judith Pella)
Your Life in Christ
(George MacDonald)

A
MERICAN
D
REAMS
Dream of Freedom
•
Dream of Life
•
Dream of Love

T
HE
S
ECRET OF THE
R
OSE
The Eleventh Hour
•
A Rose Remembered
Escape to Freedom
•
Dawn of Liberty

S
HENANDOAH
S
ISTERS
Angels Watching Over Me
A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton
The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart
Together Is All We Need

C
AROLINA
C
OUSINS
A Perilous Proposal
•
The Soldier's Lady
Never Too Late
•
Miss Katie's Rosewood

T
OGETHER
I
S
A
LL
W
E
N
EED

M
ICHAEL
P
HILLIPS

Together Is All We Need
Copyright © 2004
Michael Phillips

Cover photo of girls by David Bailey
Cover design by The DesignWorks Group

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, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

Published by Bethany House Publishers
11400 Hampshire Avenue South
Bloomington, Minnesota 55438

Bethany House Publishers is a division of
Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN 978-0-7642-2703-5

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Phillips, Michael R., 1946–
   Together is all we need / by Michael Phillips.
      p. cm. — (Shenandoah sisters)
   ISBN 0-7642-2708-4 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7642-2703-3 (pbk.)
   1. Female friendship—Fiction. 2. Plantation life—Fiction. 3. Race relations—Fiction. 4. North Carolina—Fiction. 5. Reconstruction—Fiction. 6. Teenage girls—Fiction. 7. Orphans—Fiction. I. Title II. Series: Phillips, Michael R., 1946– . Shenandoah sisters.
   PS3566.H492T64 2004
   813'.54—dc22

2004001023

MICHAEL PHILLIPS is one of the premier fiction authors publishing in the CBA marketplace. He has authored more than fifty books, with total sales exceeding six million copies. He is also well known as the editor of the popular George MacDonald Classics series. Michael and his wife, Judy, have three grown sons and make their home in Eureka, California.

Contents

1. A
NOTHER
U
NCLE
C
OMES TO
C
ALL

2. F
ATHERS AND
U
NCLES

3. A D
ETERMINED
V
ISITOR

4. A T
ALK
W
ITH
H
ENRY

5. L
EROY
S
NEED
, A
TTORNEY AT
L
AW

6. T
HE
T
RUTH
F
INALLY
G
ETS
O
UT

7. R
UMORS
S
PREAD

8. N
EW
B
OARDER AT
R
OSEWOOD

9. S
EARCH FOR THE
D
EED

10. T
HE
L
UMP IN
A
LETA'S
H
EART

11. A C
HANGE
C
OMES TO
R
OSEWOOD'S
F
AMILY

12. B
ROKEN BUT
H
EALED
F
AMILY

13. D
EVASTATING
N
EWS

14. K
ATIE
C
RACKS THE
S
AFE

15. F
ROM
O
UT OF THE
P
AST

16. F
INAL
N
OTICE

17. A D
IFFICULT
F
AMILY
T
ALK

18. K
ATIE IN
T
OWN

19. T
HE
A
RTICLE

20. L
AST
N
IGHT AT
R
OSEWOOD

21. T
OO
M
ANY
G
OOD-BYES
,
T
OO
M
ANY
T
EARS

22. I
N
T
OWN

23. A
WAY

24. I
NTERROGATION

25. A C
UP OF
C
OFFEE
W
ITH
F
RIENDS

26. L
EGAL
T
ALK

27. A
N
U
NCLE
S
EALS
O
UR
F
ATE

28. S
TUNNING AND
U
NEXPECTED
D
EVELOPMENTS

29. U
NCLE AND
N
IECE

30. C
OMING
A
FTER
U
S

31. A
NOTHER
H
OMECOMING

32. I
N
S
EARCH OF
T
EMPLETON
D
ANIELS

33. B
ROTHERS

34. A D
ETERMINED
K
ATIE
T
AKES
C
HARGE

35. S
URPRISE AT
R
OSEWOOD

36. H
APPY
B
EDTIME

37. W
ARD
P
LEADS
T
EMPLETON'S
C
ASE

38. M
AKING
A
MENDS

39. I
N
F
RONT OF THE
J
UDGE

40. R
ETURN TO
R
OSEWOOD

41. T
HE
T
WO
U
NCLES

42. M
E AND
M
Y
P
APA

43. A N
EW
B
LACK
G
ENERATION

44. A
NOTHER
H
ARVEST

45. A L
ETTER

46. A D
AY IN THE
L
IFE OF
R
OSEWOOD

47. T
HE
L
OOSE
C
OW

48. C
ELEBRATION

49. M
AKING
P
LANS

50. A F
AMILY
. . . T
OGETHER

A
NOTHER
U
NCLE
C
OMES TO
C
ALL
1

E
VEN IF
K
ATIE HAD KNOWN ABOUT THE VISITOR TO
Greens Crossing ahead of time, it probably wouldn't have changed anything. What could she have done about it anyway?

As it was, our friend Henry was the first to know. But he was busy in the livery, and his son Jeremiah, who was working for Mr. Watson at the mill, was off making a delivery out of town. There was no way for Henry to get word to us.

The man rode into the livery and dismounted.

‘‘Hey, boy!'' he called to Henry, who was probably five or ten years older than he was. ‘‘Get over here and give my horses some water and feed.''

‘‘Yes'uh,'' said Henry, ambling over and taking the reins from him.