Amish Community

When her secret recipes vanish, Amish baker Ruthie Mast must catch a thief, or lose everything she’s worked for. Known in Willow Springs for her bossy streak and perfection in the kitchen, Ruthie’s confidence crumbles when her prized recipe box disappears. The theft threatens not only her bakery’s reputation but the trust of her tight-knit church community. And as more crimes strike local businesses, Ruthie realizes the quiet town she loves may be hiding more secrets than she imagined. Enter Isaiah King, the talkative newcomer with a restless energy and a knack for noticing what ...

Before choosing a future, will she discover her true self? Lydia Peachy has always done what was expected of her—faithful, dependable, and devoted to her family. But as her eldest sister marries and life begins to change, Lydia can no longer ignore the restless questions stirring in her heart. Granted permission to spend her Rumspringa in the Englisch world, Lydia hopes distance will help her discover who she truly is. Instead, she finds herself torn between two worlds—and unexpectedly drawn to a young man who understands her uncertainty better than anyone else. As friendship blossoms ...

Two worlds. One faith. A love neither expected. Miriam Peachy has spent years guarding her heart and holding tightly to the life she knows. As the middle Peachy sister, she has watched love transform the lives of those closest to her—but she remains convinced that opening her own heart means taking a risk she isn’t sure she can endure. Then an unexpected stranger appears at the market. Luke Fischer is Englisch, confident, and unlike anyone Miriam has ever known. She tells herself their weekly conversations mean nothing. Yet with every Saturday that passes, Luke sees beyond her stubborn ...

Despite being raised in a traditional Old Order Amish family, seventeen-year-old Hannah Lapp desires to break with custom, forgo baptism into the faith, and marry outside the cloistered community. She’s been in love with Mennonite Paul Waddell for three years, and before returning to college...

Can a journey back home lead to true belonging, or are some paths meant to remain in the past? In "The Gathering Shed," the third compelling installment of the "Returning to The Fold" series, Jemima Fairfax stands on the precipice of a community torn between tradition and change. As the sun rises over the Fairfax Greenhouse, Jemima returns to her Amish roots, seeking redemption and acceptance in a world she was once part of but no longer fully knows. Amidst whispers and judgments, Jemima must navigate a landscape where steadfast devotion collides with the need for understanding. The Plain ...

When Lizzy Hershberger turns fourteen, her schooling ends at eighth grade, and she has no choice but to leave home to work as an unpaid maid for another family. To avoid being rejected by her ultra-conservative Swartzentruber Amish family and community, Lizzy is forced to abandon her dreams because they are “too worldly.” After being raped by an Amish deacon over two dozen times, Lizzy makes her first attempt at “jumping the fence” to pursue a non-Amish lifestyle. But without any modern life experience or education, Lizzy must decide whether the risks of this unpredictable and ...

Some promises are stitched. Some are chosen. Hers must be both. Hannah Lapp has always known exactly where she belongs. When her mother dies, she returns to Willow Creek fully intending to put the family's quilting business in order, help her grieving father find his footing, and then leave for the new life she's already started building elsewhere. She just needs a little time. What she doesn't plan on is Eli Fisher. Eli left the Amish community six years ago without a word and has come home uncertain whether he wants to stay — or whether leaving again would simply be easier. Quiet, ...

She finds sisterhood in the Amish Widows Club—but will she risk loving again? Leanna Mast never imagined she'd be a widow at forty-one, but it seems God had other plans. After mourning her husband for a year, she realizes it's time to start living again. But her community expects her to...

She is the bishop's daughter. The example. The one everyone trusts. He is the farrier who won't say a word about his past — and the whole district is watching. Rachel Lantz has spent twenty-seven years being exactly what Fox Hollow expects. The steady one, the schoolteacher, the bishop's word-perfect daughter. Then a spring storm drives her lame horse to the new smith's forge on Peach Lane, and Daniel Esh, a quiet Ohio farrier who says ten words where other men say a hundred, begins to mend far more than a hoof. Daniel came to Lancaster County to disappear behind honest work. But a plain ...

A Vow of Need Troyers of Willowcreek — Book 1 She has nothing left. He has everything to lose. Neither of them planned on the other. When fire takes her home and a debt threatens what little remains, Clara Miller accepts the only offer on the table — a practical marriage to a man she barely knows. Samuel Troyer needs someone steady beside him if the farm is going to survive the winter. Clara needs somewhere to land. The arrangement makes sense on paper. It gets considerably more complicated in practice. Just as something real begins to grow between them, an old grievance reaches into ...

Two years ago, Anna Schrock was jilted three weeks before her wedding. Her district has been kind to her ever since. Voices drop when she comes round a corner. Nobody asks how she is, and nobody ever asks what it was like. She has become a woman people are careful with, and it is quietly finishing her. Then an Englisch gallery owner walks down a market aisle and offers a contract no district in that part of Indiana has ever seen. Twelve hand-quilted quilts by the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. Enough money for a new roof on the deacon's house. Enough to pay an old woman's winter before the ...

The people themselves dare to challenge the old ways of their heritage... and each patriarch must choose a side. Nearly one hundred days have passed since the untimely death of Nellie Mae Fisher’s beloved younger sister, Suzy, and Nellie dares again to dream of a future with handsome Caleb...

Her Amish Wedding Quilt: An Amish seamstress and a single father have a chance to make a fresh start in this heartwarming novel about finding love when you need it the most. Spirited, forthright, impulsive -- everyone told Greta Eicher she'd have to change her ways if she ever hoped to marry...

After surviving human trafficking, Alexis gets a second chance at life. Will she use it to find love, or let guilt and fear hold her back? When she was held captive by a sex trafficking ring who kidnapped women--including Amish women--Alexis was forced to spy on the victims and report to her kidnappers or face horrific consequences. The Amish women she spied on forgave Alexis, and after they were all rescued by the Covert Police Detectives Unit, they even became good friends. Now that she is widowed, Alexis returns to the Amish community to raise her daughter and open a therapeutic equine ...

An Amish seamstress and a single father have a chance to make a fresh start in this heartwarming novel about finding love when you need it the most. Spirited, forthright, impulsive -- everyone told Greta Eicher she'd have to change her ways if she ever hoped to marry. Then her best friend Calvin...

Amish Knitting Circle is a serial novel. Episodes 1-8 comprise Granny's first knitting circle, when she invites 5 women who are heavy on her heart to knit for charity. Granny Weaver believes these women could be stronger if spun together. She invites five women, all with various issues such as infertility, poor body image and marital problems and haunting secrets. As they meet from October to April to knit shawls for charity, they begin to deal with problems, together, in community, the Amish way. Amish Knitting Circle: Complete Series includes: Beginnings ~ Granny Weaver starts the circle,...

Some believe in love at first sight. But lasting love is most clearly seen with the heart. A Miracle for Miriam: Miriam forgave Seth for humiliating her when they were children on the schoolyard, but since then, she’s guarded her heart. Years later, Miriam sees him at a Christmas party and...

She has been correcting her father’s ledger by lamplight for two years. Nobody in Bird-in-Hand knows why. Every Tuesday evening, twenty-six-year-old Rebekah Stoltzfus locks the door of the harness shop and stays late to fix the entries her father muddled during the day. A price written too low. A name entered against the wrong account. A repair never recorded at all. Amos Stoltzfus has been a respected harnessmaker in Lancaster County for forty years. He raised his daughter alone after her mother died. And he is beginning, slowly and gently, to disappear. Rebekah has told no one. Not her ...

One misplaced parcel, one snowy lane, and a quiet love that grows by the light of a lantern. When the first real winter snow hides Willow Lane, Lydia Zook’s neat life as a village seamstress is nudged off course by misdelivered letters and a stubborn neighbor who means well. With timbers, beeswax, and steady hands, Amos Byler—the quiet carpenter whose eyes are as careful as his joinery—helps build a simple post cupboard to keep the lane's parcels safe. What starts as a practical solution becomes a tender work of repair—of relationships, of reputations, and of two hearts learning to ...

The Amish will be the first to tell you they're not perfect. But they do a lot of things right. Forgiveness is one of them. A one-room schoolhouse sat amid the gentle, quaint Amish community in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. It made such a picturesque scene with its wide, welcoming front porch...