Beverly Lewis

Jonas Mast returns to the Amish community at Apple Creek, Ohio, in hopes of reuniting with Leah Ebersol, the love of his youth, and even though she is willing to forget the past, it seems as though the Bishop and others are trying to keep them apart.

Twenty-year-old Grace Byler is curious about her mother's strange behavior at night, but when she sees her willingly disappear into a car and drive away, Grace is concerned that her mother has abandoned their Amish society.

Although the church split has torn their Amish community apart, Nellie Mae Fisher and Caleb Yoder still feel drawn to one another, but if they pursue their relationship, they know they will have to go against the wishes of those they hold dear and risk everything.

Grace Byler leaves her Amish community with her new English friend to search for her estranged mother in Ohio; meanwhile, Grace's mother, Lettie, continues her own quest to find what she feels is missing and swallows her guilt over leaving her family.

Rose's older sister, Hen, knows more than she should about falling for the wrong man. Unable to abandon her Amish ways, Hen is soon separated from her very modern husband. Mattie, their young daughter, must visit her father regularly, but Hen demands she wear Amish attire--and speak Pennsylvania Dutch, despite her husband's wishes. Will Hen be able to reestablish her place among the people she abandoned? And will she be able to convince Rose to steer...