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Aileen from the MacKinnon clan was out walking and met Craig from the MacNeil clan. The two clans had a bitter rivalry between them, but Aileen and Craig formed a close relationship while picking and eating blackberries. One day, Rhona, Aileen's sister, followed her on one of her walks out of the village and found that her sister was meeting with a man from a hated clan. Rhona told Aileen to stop the meeting or else she would tell their parents.

Flora’s elder sibling Jean is murdered when they are out walking. Flora realizes that both of her elder siblings were both murdered on the same date following their 21st birthday. Flora and her friend Alexander both realize that they need to try and track down the murderer of Flora’s dear sister, but also that it is not long before the date arrives for Flora! Will the two friends identify the killer even if it means that Flora must put herself in harms way for the killer to be caught.

Mr. and Mrs. MacGillivray,” A fierce looking woman stood across from a middle aged couple. Off to the side sat a little boy, arms crossed over his chest and with a bloody nose. “This is the third time since the last harvest that yer son has skelped another laddie from the clan.”

The Highland Secret by Rhona Byrne is a short-read fiction telling the story of a love unreturned and a long-held secret between sisters of a Highland clan. When the younger sister courts the elder sisters secret love, the many twists and turns unravel over time leading to some crunch decisions that could mean happiness forever, or their family being torn apart. What will she decide to do?

Aileen meets up with Ross the illegitimate son of Aliastair. He was not welcomed as he had come from the other side of the valley. As Ross tried to settle into his new village murders began happen and there was only one person for whom (other than Aileen) the finger pointed. Are the suspicions correct? Contains some Scottish phrasing and words.

Moira and her childhood sweetheart are almost inseparable as they grow up in the villages amongst their clan. They are young soul mates and the whole village assumes that they will one day be married. As they grow up, people, family, and circumstance combine to test their love and relationship to the maximum. Can they ever be alone and happy? Contains Scottish phrasing and words.

Alison is married to Archibald who physically abused her. Alison called on her neighbor Cameron (from another clan) after her beatings. He helped her with her wounds and took her to Aggie, the healer of his clan. Alison tried to hide all evidence of her beatings from her friends and people in her own clan. One morning, after returning from seeing Aggie, Alison’s house was spookily quiet. As Alison ventured inside, to her horror, she found Archibald dead on the floor.

The forest on the edge of the community was not often entered into by the community folk due to children telling stories of things going on that were not normal or safe. Over years these stories had become village folklore and even some of the adults had started to believe in them. Miriam had long held desires over a young man in the village called Aaron who lived by himself after the recent passing of both parents. Miriam was trying to care for her elderly mother as well as make knitted goods to sell in the town for income. She was struggling to hold things together.

All Rebecca wanted was to be happy, and she was for a while. She had married the love of her life, Jacob, but when they discovered they couldn’t have Kinner of their own, things started to fall apart. Becoming more withdrawn from her Mann, she couldn’t help but blame Gott for their predicament. Why did Gott take away such a blessing from them? Jacob wanted his Fraa back. He too wanted Kinner, but who was he to question Gott? Jacob knew that if he could only convince Rebecca, they could be happy regardless, but the more time passed, the more distant between them they grew.

Mary Troya was a motherly sort who sadly could not bear children of her own. Within her community both she and her husband, Eli, were of some standing and reputation for helping others with their problems. An Amish man, Joseph Augsburger , who had left the community a few years back to teach in the local town's high school had visited the community to visit his family and former friends. Mary bumped into him, and they talked of his work teaching, which Mary believed to be a noble, God-serving vocation.

Eli, a well respected member of the Amish community, had a dream which prompts him to want to help someone. He is not sure who the man in his dream was and so shares his dream with his wife, Mary, who in turn encourages him to speak to the whole community. Much to Eli’s surprise, the community as a whole believe his dream and some younger members of the community even think that they may have seen the man to who the dream is related. But who is this man? And why has he been drawn to Eli’s conscience in a dream?

Emma was only 10 years old when her world was shattered.... Samuel, her brother, killed six boys aged 16, but why would an Amish teenager about to sample Rumspringa commit a sin in the eyes of Gott? Why would he kill? Did his friends know more than they said? Did they know the real Samuel? As Emma returns to find out the truth, will her old friends in the town now be foes? Will this return trip be the last trip ever?

Every weekend, 10-year-old Josie would walk the two miles out of town to the local Amish community, where she would spend all day until sunset getting to know everyone there and helping out as best she could. She was enthralled with their way of life, their customs, their language, and the devout ways they held. What she most loved about them was their fairness in everything and how all they did revolved around their faith in God.

Anna works as a nanny for the Lawrence family. She takes care of their three-year-old son, Joshua. Her employer, Arthur, is a friend of her older brother. He has made a couple of improper advances toward her before, but she often ignores them and brushes them off. He was drunk on all those occasions, so she decides to give him the benefit of the doubt. She hears him fighting with his wife in their room one afternoon. The next day, Sophia Lawrence is nowhere to be found.

A group of Amish youths go on rumspringa to a local city where they are picked on by a local gang. In the end, some of the Amish boys, despite their faith telling them not to fight back, decide that they have had enough and try and stand up to them.The next thing the Amish youths know is that they are being questioned over the murder of one of the local boys. The police ask Karson Drew to help with the investigation as they know that he will be able to help them with the Amish community. This is the last audiobook in the five-part series of The Amish Detective.

Alicia had been good whilst on Rumspringa in London, England. Experiencing a job, a different culture, and making new friends had been good for her, but as Christmas approached her thoughts turned to her return home to the Amish community and her family. That is until a good young man started to pay her some attention.

An Amish murder mystery...A group of Amish youths go on Rumspringa to a local city where they are picked on by a local gang. In the end some of the Amish boys, despite their faith telling them to not fight back, decided that they have had enough and try and stand up to them. The next thing the Amish know is that they are being questioned over the murder of one of the local boys...Will Karson be able to identify the killer before an innocent young man is possibly convicted.

Karson is restless. It has been some time since he has been called upon to solve a crime. As he suffocates in the boredom of day-to-day living, a letter delivered to his door brings news of new case. A young man has been arrested, accused of a murder for which his wife, Abigail, believes he is innocent. She pleads with Karson to come and help Jonathon, her husband, clear himself of these charges.

George had always felt like an outsider. Even his birth name made him stand out from others in the Amish community. His parents gave him a British name rather than an Amish traditional name, as they were happy to be seen as different within the community. He was your typical aloof and loner 19-year-old.

Eli was a dreamer and through his teenage years, the elders often expressed concern that some of his ideas and dreams were more suitable for the outside world than for their traditional Amish ways and customs. He was young, excitable, and brimming with ideas and yet became concerned that he did not seem to fit in and was often talked about behind his back as being “not very Amish”.