Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]).

China isn't anxious to leave her herb shop in the Texas Hill Country for two whole weeks. But her friends and family are urging her to get some rest, and a historic Shaker village in Kentucky seems the ideal place for it. At Mount Zion, China can assist her friend Martha with some herbal workshops while absorbing the beautiful surroundings and learning about the intriguing Shaker culture, which has dwindled to near nonexistence thanks in part to their policy of strict celibacy. The Shakers were famous for their furniture and their peaceful ways, but China is more compelled by their tradition of growing and gathering medicinal herbs that they sold widely to the doctors of the time.

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