Amish Love

Ivy Yoder hasn't heard from John King in over a year. She knows it's time to let go of the idea that they will one day marry, but she's humiliated to be one of the oldest single women in her Amish community of Birch Creek. When quirky Cevilla Schlabach asks her to help clean out an attic, Ivy is grateful for the distraction.

Englischer Natalie Collins looks forward to Friday night suppers at Levi and Mary Shetler’s house every week: delicious food, wonderful conversation with her Amish friends, and, best of all, the presence of Levi’s older brother, Lucas. Natalie and Lucas have become best friends despite their different backgrounds. They share a love of books, and he is teaching her about God in a way that she can understand. But the closer they become, the more opinions everyone seems to have. Levi and Mary, Lucas’s family, and even Natalie’s mother have concerns about their relationship.

All Miriam Lapp has ever wanted is to fall in love and start a family. Unfortunately, her dream hasn't turned out exactly the way she planned. Her husband Josiah works long hours nearly every day at the furniture shop, leaving her to practically raise their four-year-old son alone. Miriam knows she has to make a change. Will she find a way to reclaim the romance she once had in her marriage and make things right again?

Grace Fisher's parents want her to settle down with her best friend, Daniel King. Friends since childhood, Grace and Daniel do not see each other in a romantic light. It is Daniel's cousin, Isaac, now an Englischer, that Grace hopes to court. When Isaac comes back to Lancaster after five years away to spend a few weeks with Daniel's family, Grace prays that she and Isaac can get to know each other better. But when tragedy strikes, Grace encounters a twist of fate which leaves her world turned upside down.

Rebecca lost her parents in a tragic fire and was sent to live with her uncle, Jonas. Jonas's hope is that Rebecca will marry Daniel, his partner in the buggy shop. But Rebecca's heart is somewhere else, and she can't imagine spending her life with Daniel. Evan has returned back home after moving to his wife's Amish community when they married. But with his wife’s passing one year ago, his heart has now taken him back to his family's farm with his two children.

Empty-nesters Levina Lapp and her husband Naaman have no children under their roof for the first time in 30 years. When Naaman leaves to visit cousins in Ohio, Levina never expected him to be gone a year. Now that he's back, will they be able to move beyond this estrangement and rekindle the fire of the love they once shared?

Tiny fingers, tiny toes, and lives that will never be the same. Journey with four families as their lives are about to change forever. Four Amish novellas—In His Father's Arms, A Song for Always, A Heart Full of Love, and An Unexpected Blessing.

Mary and Ruth are the best of friends. Ruth leaves the village to work for a year at her relatives' farm in the community on the other side of town and so leaves her friend for a year. Whilst away, Ruth falls in love with a young man at the village, but is unsure if he feels the same way. Mary misses her friend very much and becomes lonesome after her mother dies in a farming accident.

George had always felt like an outsider. Even his birth name made him stand out from others in the Amish community. His parents gave him a British name rather than an Amish traditional name, as they were happy to be seen as different within the community. He was your typical aloof and loner 19-year-old.

Two sweet, innocent Amish twin sisters have their family love and loyalty tested to the extreme when they both fall for the same man. As Sarah and her twin schweschder, Rebecca, consider courting and finding love, will Sarah decide to date the Mann who shows his interest in her but whom her schweschder is trying to woo?

Along with his volunteer work at the local fire department, running his Amish farm keeps Jamie Riehl busy. He barely has time to eat at the family table, never mind find someone to date. But when he meets Kayla Dienner, he is smitten. Kayla tries hard to deny her attraction to Jamie. After all, she's spent the last year discouraging her younger brother, Nathan, from becoming a firefighter. The death of their older brother in a fire a year ago is fresh in her mind - she can't bear the idea of putting her heart on the line every time the sirens blare.

Annie's life is deliciously full as the Christmas season approaches. She helps her husband, Samuel, attend to the community's minor medical needs. She occasionally assists Belinda, the local midwife, and most days, she finds herself delivering the buggy to her brother Adam. Annie's sister-in-law Leah is due to deliver their first child before Christmas morning, and Annie is determined to finish a crib quilt before the boppli arrives. With six weeks to go, she should have no problem....

Sarah Schuster has always reserved a special place in her heart for Joshua Kaufman. Unfortunately, Joshua's rumspringa seems to be going on indefinitely. With the pool of single Amish men in her community getting smaller by the day, Sarah has to decide how long she's willing to hold out hope for Joshua to come around before she gives another man a try.

One night four lives entered the world by the hands of an Amish midwife just outside North Star, Pennsylvania. Rebekah's babies, as they are called, are now grown adults, and in four heartwarming novellas each young person experiences a journey of discovery, love, and the wonder of Christmas.

Anna was once betrayed by someone she loved deeply. In an attempt to never be hurt again, she and her mother relocated to Middlefield, Ohio. It was the ideal place for Anna's broken heart to mend. In Middlefield, Anna withdrew from risk, placing all her attention on managing the new gift shop she and her mom bought. When Lukas introduces himself, Anna can't resist her attraction to him. Though she finds herself falling in love, she's hiding a piece of her past in fear that their future will be destroyed if she tells him the truth.

John has spent the last few months caring for Sarah, his wife of over 20 years, as she battles cancer. But he is also wracked with pain as he has harbored a guilty secret. He never really loved his wife in the arranged marriage. Instead, he has spent the last 20 years pining over his first love, Emily. When Sarah passes away, he is completely devastated. He is filled with guilt and regret that he was not a better husband to her. His biggest wish was that he could have been given a second chance to be the man he should have been.

For widow Rose Raber, it's been a year of tragic loss and difficult decisions. She thought providing for her young daughter was the greatest challenge she faced. Until her dying mother revealed that Rose was adopted - and her birth mother is someone with much to lose if the secret comes out. As Rose struggles to reconcile the truth with her faith - and her troubling curiosity - outgoing newcomer Matthias Wagler is another surprise she didn't expect. His optimism and easy understanding inspires her.

Dorcas Beiler's reckless teenage years are far behind her. She's serious and responsible now, and the good people of Promise Glen trust her with the education of their children. But when her first love returns after years of exile from the community, her past comes rushing back. Thomas is the only one who knows her secret, and despite his careless charm and teasing manner, she refuses to let her guard down.

Elaine Jutzi has a God-given gift—she knows just what to say to someone who is hurting. So surely, she can help her sister, who recently suffered a stillbirth. But things don’t go well. Christina yearns to join her boppli in heaven, and Elaine can’t seem to reach her. And then Elaine’s longtime beau decides to call it quits, thrusting Elaine into her own world of sadness.

War correspondent Jennie King thinks she's just a temporary guest in her grandmother's Amish community while she recuperates from the devastating injuries sustained in a car-bomb attack that changed her world. But when she meets Matthew Bontrager, the man she had a crush on as a teenager, she wonders if God has a new plan for her.