Years of secrecy bind the tiny community of Gobbler's Knob together more than the present inhabitants know, and the Plain folk who farm the land rarely interact with the fancy locals. So when Sadie is beguiled by a dark-haired English boy, it is Sadie's younger sister, Leah, who suffers from her sister's shameful loss of innocence. And what of Leah's sweetheart, Jonas Mast, sent to Ohio under the Bishop's command? Drawn into an incomprehensible pact...

Leah Ebersol rejoices in her coming baptism and marriage. Her joy is clouded, though, when she learns of a secret sin that her older sister, Sadie, has committed. If Sadie does not confess and repent, Leah must tell the church elders--or risk sacrificing her own conscience and reputation.

"In a 1980s Amish community, three sisters face a time of transition in their family, and each searches for a way to define her own future"--

The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide -- and for the first...

After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.

When a member of a Minnesota Amish community is found brutally murdered, investigator Riley Spartz encounters cultural challenges to traditional police procedures before uncovering clues about a dark web of fraud and deception.

While caring for her ailing mother in Deer Run, Pennsylvania, Meredith agrees to help her cousin find out what really happened to a teenage Amish boy whose death is still shrouded in mystery after twenty years. When a ghost from her own past reappears, there is suddenly a lot more at stake.

"If Trudy Yoder can stop construction at Wonder Lake, she'll save the bird sanctuary. Even better, she'll keep her beloved Micah Weaver from leaving town to find new birds to chase. What Trudy doesn't know is that Micah is already on a chase to find the girl who broke his heart--Trudy's estranged sister, Shelley"--

Young Amish widow Rachel Yoder helps run a bed-and-breakfast in rural Pennsylvania, and when a guest, journalist Philip Bradley, finds an old postcard in the dresser of his room, it touches off a surprising chain of events.

"Inn owner Rachel Mast is no longer a devout member of the Amish community of Stone Mill, Pennsylvania, but she still cares deeply for them. So she's staying at her family's farm to help her mother through an illness--and at the same time, trying to track down two missing people"--