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Iris James has every reason to run away from home. Living in her uncle’s cold, loveless household has stripped her of everything – including her hope for the future. When a matrimonial agency matches her up with a widower in Mountain Pass, Oregon, she’s only too glad to accept. Though the challenge of stepping into a dead woman’s shoes and becoming a wife and mother all at once will be difficult, she can’t believe it could be any worse than staying in Philadelphia. But there’s far more to the story than she expects – her new husband is haunted by the ghosts of his tragic past.

Nineteen-year-old Amish schoolteacher Eliza Frey is in love with longtime family friend Andy Clymer - but Andy has no clue. He makes that perfectly clear when he asks Eliza for advice about dating two different women, so he can decide which one to marry, and he’d like to be wed by Christmas.

Rachel Fisher struggles to live peaceably with her late husband’s aenti, who took Rachel and her son in when they needed shelter. But Barbara continually interferes with how Rachel is raising young Evan, and sparks fly. Rachel tries to get along - she really does - but Barbara pushes her to the limit. When newcomer David Wengerd moves into the district, Rachel is intrigued. But there are secrets there, something David is hiding.

Belle Herman is destined for better things. At least, that is what her mother always tells her. When the local matrimonial agency matches her with a wealthy rancher in Colorado, she sets her sights on the future and says a fond goodbye to her past.

Unlike most women her age, Linda Shrock has no plans to get married - ever. When her sister Ruth has baby number five in six years, Linda goes to stay with them. The infant can’t keep her food down and cries constantly, and Ruth’s husband’s furniture-making business is struggling - not the makings for a merry Christmas. And the Weavers’ hired hand, Luke Troyer, seems determined to disrupt Linda’s carefully made plans to live her life out as a spinster. She tries to fight the intense attraction that pulls her and Luke together.

As a parlor maid, Blanche Eplett is invisible to everyone in her life…except for Ludwig Turner, the rakishly handsome master of the house. When Ludwig’s interest in Blanche becomes something more amorous, she finds herself pregnant with his child and soon gives birth to a little girl named May. At first, Ludwig is there to care for them both. But when tragedy strikes, Blanche and May are thrown out onto the streets. Blanche will do anything to care for May and to protect the child’s kind and loving heart—a heart soon enamored by a fellow street urchin named Taylor Harris.

Florence Glick has devoted her life to taking care of her injured, widowed sister and her four children. When a mysterious neighbor moves into the abandoned Yoder farm next door, Florence’s interest is piqued. Philip Lehman seems to always be in the right place at the right time to help them, but there is something odd going on. Something he’s not revealing. Something that makes his behavior confusing. As Florence falls for him, she yearns to know his secret.

Amateur sleuth Geneva Pomolo is once again drawn into mystery when her investigating partner, Iris Reeves, signs up to read from her novel-in-progress during an open mic night at the local club. The proceedings are interrupted by a scuffle between best-selling young adult novelist William Miller and his former boss and fiancée, Ava Warner. Ava has been feeling salty toward William ever since he suddenly broke off the relationship. William was forced to file a restraining order when she began following him around hoping to humiliate him in public...

Anna Mast has accepted Daniel Studer’s proposal of marriage. She is giddy with excitement, and her mind spins with wedding plans. When Daniel stops by the next day, refusing to come inside, instant dread courses through her. And Anna is right to worry. Daniel has been caught by Deacon Elias using technology, and he is to come before the church for discipline.

Thanksgiving should be a joyful season - but not for Mary Shrock. She’d always planned to marry David - never even considered doing anything else with her life. Two weeks before their wedding, David runs off to marry another woman. That was a year ago, and Mary is still feeling the shock and humiliation. Micah Miller lost his wife last year, leaving him with five young kinner to raise on his own, plus a business to run. He is exhausted.

Neither Ellie Dawson nor Jonathan Hart are strangers to tragedy. Though they have never met, both have lost parents and sisters, and are alone in the world. When a matrimonial agency matches the two as husband and wife, it seems common ground isn’t enough to make a successful marriage.

Every day, Mercy Hess walks home from her babysitting job and sees a particular driver zoom by. Always the same driver, yet always a different car. One blustery day, the driver slows and offers Mercy - who is drenched - a lift. Throwing caution to the wind, she accepts. The driver’s name is Charlie Westman, and she finds herself drawn to him...and accepting more than one ride from him as the days go on.

A tragic road accident sends Leah Yoder reeling. Her mother is dead. And so is the mother of Seth Knapp. Now in charge of her household, Leah struggles to do not only her chores, but her mother’s. And when her father deserts the family, her brothers are left tending the crops. Leah reaches out to her beau Timothy for help - something she quickly regrets. Timothy is so busy, and isn’t inclined to spend too many hours helping out on the Yoder farm.

After her best friend dies immediately after childbirth, Amy Yoder cares for little Susie like her own. When Susie's grandmother appears on the scene, ready to take over Susie's complete care, Amy tries to be gracious and bow out. But how does a person bow out of a situation like that? How can Amy give up the baby she loves like her own? How can she leave Andrew's home where she's stayed since Susie's birth?

Charis Otto is eager to spend the holiday season with her beau, Eli. Perhaps, he’ll propose to her on Christmas. However, her plans are dashed when her mother forces her to go help her ailing aunt in Illinois. She tearfully departs Ohio, promising Eli she’ll write him often and be back in time for Christmas. Eli agrees to write her as well, and the two sweethearts begin a long-distance relationship.

Julia Bontrager’s world collapses when her husband is killed in a freak accident. Suddenly a single mother with three children to raise and a farm to work, she flounders to survive. Her in-laws pressure her to return to Illinois, but Julia won’t give up her late husband’s dream; nor can she imagine living with her difficult and dominating mother-in-law. In desperation, she hires a young Amish man to take over the bulk of the farm work.

Berea Bachman helps her parents run an Amish Bed and Breakfast. Curious and a bit nosy, she loves hearing about the lives of the guests who come to stay with them. Shortly before Christmas an Englischer arrives, a man who is both intriguing and different—a man who captures her imagination. Daniel Lapp has loved Berea for years, but she doesn’t consider him as anything more than the man who he is hired to do various jobs around the inn.

Dorothy Bontrager has lived at her grandparents’ farm since she was orphaned as a young girl. Though it has been many years since then, she fears her current home with the older couple could be lost - for it happened once before. With the New Year fast approaching, Dorothy plans to start a business in a bid to feel more secure following her grandfather’s recent passing. She keeps her heart guarded, but the arrival of a young man in town catches her attention.

Caleb Ebersole listens to his dying grandfather’s words in utter shock. The buggy shop is to be left to his brother Ephraim? Caleb is the one who has given his heart and all his energy to the shop. Caleb is the one who helped his grandfather run the store for years. His brother couldn’t care less about the shop. And to make matters worse, Caleb’s grandfather asks him to school his brother in the running of the business.

Colin Fischer is in love with Collette Bontrager, but she’s in love with her long-time beau Ivan Yordy. Ivan hasn’t asked Collette to marry him yet, but Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and she has high hopes that the romantic holiday will be the day of his proposal. When rumors start circulating about Ivan and another woman, Collette is shocked and hurt. She remains loyal to Ivan, however, refusing to believe he would do that to her.