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Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult follows the court case of an unmarried Amish teenager accused of murdering her newborn after hiding the pregnancy. Katie, eighteen years old, is the teenager in question. She is unmarried and denies any involvement with the infant, even going as far as to say that the baby was not hers and that she wasn't pregnant, though circumstantial evidence points otherwise and leads to her arrest. Enter Ellie Hathaway, who is fed up with her job and sickened by the “wheels of justice.” Ellie is a big-city attorney from Philadelphia. She leaps at the chance to come to Paradise, Pennsylvania, which is not too far from Lancaster, to visit with her great-aunt. What she doesn’t count on is getting involve