Beverly Lewis

Twenty-one-year-old Grace Byler longs to find her missing mother and to uncover the secret that drove her to leave their Amish community, but she fears she will never know the truth, and while she struggles to accept her family's loss, she tries to make the community understand her decision to remain single.

Lydia Cottrell, eldest of five Amish orphans, is determined to honor her mother's dying wish that she keep the family together, but she is puzzled when she learns that her mother's sister Sarah, a woman who had ridiculed their Amish lifestyle, has been appointed guardian.