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,...

She came home uncertain. He arrived with nothing left to hold onto. Together, they may find what they’ve been missing all along. Rachel returns from Rumspringa unsure if she belongs in the life she left behind. The rules feel tighter than ever—and her heart still aches for something more. When she agrees to help at Pine Hollows Inn, she believes it will be temporary. Samuel Troyer knows what it means to feel lost. With no future waiting for him at home, he arrives at Pine Hollows Inn searching for direction—but finds only hard work and unanswered prayers. At the inn, long days of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The leaves are changing in Pine Hollows… and so are two hearts longing for hope. After years of faithfully running Pine Hollows Inn, Miriam Lapp is ready to hand over the reins to the next generation and settle into a quieter season of life. But when nights grow long and lonely, she begins to wonder if Gott still has more plans for her heart. When an old friend returns unexpectedly, he stirs emotions Miriam never imagined that she would feel again. As a widower burdened by grief, he finds comfort in her steady faith and gentle spirit. Together, through orchard walks, shared suppers, and ...

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.

Growing up Amish and leaving the fold, Emma Gingerich left her Amish community in Eagleville, Missouri, at the age of 18. Her memoir Runaway Amish Girl: The Great Escape captivates even the timid listener. Disagreeing with the beliefs of Amish traditions and upbringing, the pressure became too much for her to bear. Forced to make a personal decision, Emma found the courage to leave the only life she had ever known. She had no idea the emotional turmoil she'd inflict on her family and friends.  

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.

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 ...

Three plain travelers. One lost daughter. A Christmas journey into the heart of New York City. Years ago, Lydia Stoltzfus ran from her strict Amish life toward the glittering promise of the Englisch world. She hasn’t written home since. Now, at twenty-one and heavily pregnant, she finds herself alone in a noisy city apartment, clutching a part-time job, a pile of unpaid bills, and a heart full of regret. The baby’s father has moved on. The skyscrapers that once felt exciting now crowd in like cold stone walls. Back in Lancaster County, a worn letter finally arrives. Lydia is alive, ...

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 ...

She teaches children to find their voices. His daughter hasn’t spoken in a year. Alma Riehl has been the Sycamore Bend schoolteacher for eight years. She is patient, perceptive, and quietly content with her life—or so she tells herself. At thirty and unmarried, she has made peace with the fact that the men in her community see the schoolteacher, not the woman. Then Niles Kauffman enrolls his seven-year-old daughter mid-term. Effie hasn’t spoken a word since her mother died. She carries a sketchbook everywhere and watches the world with wide, knowing eyes. Niles is gruff, impatient, ...

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...

The Lost Apple of Lancaster When a late-spring storm scatters the blossoms of Miriam Zook’s orchard in Lancaster County, she fears her year’s work—and her family’s provision—has been lost. But in the wreckage of broken branches, she uncovers a cedar-wrapped journal belonging to her Mammi Ada. Inside waits a secret graft, whispered of only in the margins: the Lancaster Heart. Guided by the journal’s clues, Miriam and the quiet wheelwright Eli Shetler trace stitch-patterns and creek-bends to find the forgotten apple. What begins as a search for fruit becomes a deeper journey—...

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, ...

Four books in one volume: A Legacy of Love by Amy Clipston, The Cedar Chest by Beth Wiseman, The Treasured Book by Kathleen Fuller, and The Midwife’s Dream by Kelly Irvin.

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 ...

One crooked sign. One lonely man. And a woman who knows every lane by heart. When Barbara Stoltzfus notices a lane sign turned the wrong way on New Year’s morning, she expects a gust or a prank—never that someone would deliberately try to make the road point toward one small house. Teaming with Gideon Weaver, the district’s careful signmaker, she finds clues leading back to a single, quiet homestead. What starts as a cozy sleuthing of knots and cedar shavings becomes a tender lesson in mercy: the misdirection springs from grief, not malice. As the community organizes a Guidepost Day, ...