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The Believers audiobook

Rebecca Fowler is only seventeen when she marries Richard Cooper. She cannot remember a time when she has not loved and trusted him. At first the marriage is happy, but after their child is stillborn Richard shows preliminary signs of religious fanaticism in his insistence that this is God's punishment. The Shaker missionaries newly arrived in Kentucky find him an easy convert. When Richard joins the Shaker community, Rebecca goes with him hoping that her love will ultimately win him back to her and to the larger world. She becomes part of a world in which men and women--even husbands and wives--live apart, coming together only for meals and for worship. As time passes and she sees Richard's affection recede, only her stubborn honesty gives her the strength to deny lip service to a doctrine she cannot truly accept and, at the last, courage to follow the dictates of her heart.

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