Amish Community

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,...

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 ...

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 ...

Esther Beiler has always believed rules keep people safe. As Willow Creek’s devoted schoolteacher, she values order, fairness and the steady certainty of lessons taught the proper way. But when eleven-year-old Aaron Troyer repeatedly struggles with words he understands perfectly when spoken, Esther begins to realise that treating every child exactly the same is not always the same as treating them fairly. Aaron’s older brother and guardian, Micah Troyer, has spent years holding his family together after the loss of their parents. Protective, practical and quietly stubborn, he will do ...

Edna's friend, Verna Bontrager, has a problem. Her outspoken 20-year-old daughter, Myrna, has been fired from her job. Again. Myrna's family really needs her to chip in, but she's clearly unsuited to customer service - not to mention that her sharp tongue scares away any boy who might come courting. But Edna has an idea - and his name is Ezekiel Riehl.

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 ...

Their fathers haven’t spoken in years. Now the bishop says they have to fix it themselves. When a storm brings down the old oak tree straddling the property line between the Lengacher and Hostettler farms, both families claim the timber. The fathers—stubborn, proud, and nursing a grudge that started with a survey stake a generation ago—refuse to settle it. Bishop Harlan has had enough. He tells them to work it out on their own. And somehow, it falls to their eldest children to negotiate. Patience Lengacher has run her father’s household since her mother passed. She is practical, ...

Heartwarming Amish Romance from a New York Times Bestselling Author Miri Schrock never expected to inherit anything after months of caring for Old Tom Yoder, so upon his passing, she's stunned to learn he's left her everything. But Tom's family is equally shocked, and Miri is not sure she can...

Back in the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation took Europe by storm. The havoc wreaked saw the split of churches and the emergence of the Amish, led by Jakob Ammann. By the 18th century, a group of Amish had crossed the seas to the United States, where they made their home, and today the Amish are now one of the fastest-growing populations in the world.

When duty brings them together, will love convince them to stay? For years, Martha Lapp has blessed her Amish community by bringing lonely hearts together. Though she never claimed the title of matchmaker, many happy marriages owed their beginnings to Martha’s gentle guidance. As a terminal illness takes over, the community works together to care for her until her final breath. Even on her deathbed, Martha’s eyes can’t help but notice a potential match beginning to form. During the reading of Martha’s will, one of the beloved community members who cared for her in her last days ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover when Gott's plan was waiting on the other side of forgiveness. When a beloved Amish elder suffers a devastating medical crisis, the quiet community of Snow Creek rallies around him. As he prepares to return home from the hospital, Bishop Byler asks for volunteers to help as a caregiver and someone to manage the farm during his recovery. Leah Mast eagerly steps forward and volunteers to be his caregiver, seeing this as an opportunity to return a favor from the past. Paul Knepp offers to manage the farm, grateful to the elder who became a father figure in his life. There is just one ...

Nothing would stop this teacher from getting her schoolhouse back, even if it meant picking up a hammer herself. At twenty-six, Rachel Fisher has poured every ounce of her devotion into her classroom. Love once whispered to her heart, but she has long since silenced it, content with the laughter and learning of her students. But when a fierce tornado tears through their Amish community—leaving homes battered and the beloved schoolhouse in ruins—Rachel's world is shaken. With no funds to rebuild, the community elders offer a surprising solution: a traveling carpenter has volunteered his ...

Everyone knows who she is supposed to marry. Except her heart doesn’t agree. Verity Mast is the bishop’s granddaughter—devout, community-minded, and quietly suffocating under the weight of everyone’s expectations. She teaches Sunday school, keeps her head covered, and has never given anyone a reason to doubt she will marry an Amish farmer and anchor the next generation of Sycamore Bend. Then she meets Colton Reinhardt at a livestock auction, and everything she thought she knew tilts sideways. Colton is Mennonite. He drives a truck. He has electricity. He reads his Bible in English ...

From bestselling author Beth Wiseman come four sweet stories centered around celebrations in the Amish community: rumschpringe, baptism, weddings, and Christmas. The Gift of Sisters Hannah and Rachel are fraternal twins approaching their sixteenth birthday—a time when they will be allowed to...

Can love take root when two hearts grow from different soil? After the tragic loss of her husband, Emma Hostetler has devoted herself entirely to the one place that brings her peace—her garden. Nestled in the heart of Hope Springs, it’s a sanctuary of color, beauty, and quiet reflection. While her Amish family gently urges her to open her heart again, Emma clings tightly to her past in fear of betrayal. Miles away from the life he once knew, Luke Duncan is a Chicago landscaper who has left the chaos of city life behind. Tired of deadlines, demanding clients, and the emptiness that ...

In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner’s report: natural causes. Ida’s husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli’s shifting narratives disregarded.