American graduate student Eloise Kelly, continuing her research on Napoleonic-era espionage, while fighting her attraction to Colin Selwick, the descendant of her spy subjects, uncovers the story of Mary Alsworthy, a raven-haired beauty who agrees to help Lord Vaughn infiltrate the ranks of the French spy, the Black Tulip, and finds she has captured not only the spy's attentions, but also that of her boss, Lord Vaughn.

Thomas Ollenburger seeks God's help in choosing his path when, after graduating college, he questions whether his heart belongs to his Mennonite roots in rural Kansas, or back in Boston, and seeing as how he holds affection for a girl in both locations, his choice proves difficult.

Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor has her hands full as her wedding draws near, trying to juggle her human and supernatural friends and family, her own cold feet, and her fiance's disappearance.

In the Amish community of Sugarcreek, Ohio, Joshua Graber is feeling pressured to marry Gretta, but when a new English family moves in next door, Joshua feels an instant connection with their daughter Lilly, who is hiding a secret that will affect all of them.

Logan Creed returns to the long-time neglected ranch of his family with a dusty law degree and makes friends with his neighbor Briana Grant, a divorced mother of three, but he is called into action when Briana's ex-husband reappears and her home is vandalized.

Becca Burke, struck by lightning at the age of eight and again at sixteen, grows up to be an artist whose intense work attracts Buckley Pitank, witness as a young teen to a lightning strike, and they set out to explore the mysterious connection between them.

Grace Hostettler, having put her rumschpringe, or running-around years, behind her four years earlier, is engaged to marry a gentle young man in her Amish community in Holmes County, Ohio, when an Englisher who knows things about her she would like to keep secret shows up and threatens to destroy her future.

Carlos Bluhm, who leads a comfortable upper-class life with his wife in Lima, begins a passionate affair with a sixteen-year-old dancer from a tango bar, despite the known consequences, but when the young girl demands a final commitment from Carlos, his resistance could result in an untimely resolution.