Amish Mennonite Romance

"Spring Is in the Air": As the young people of Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, plant a garden in memory of their friend, Katie Ann begins to worry that her older brother, Ephraim, is dating her best friend. What if she somehow loses them both? "Home by Summer": Clara Hertzler's surprised when Jerry Petersheim, her old friend, comes to the garden to drop off his younger sister-especially because Jerry has been gone for years and now seems to be living as an Englisher. As the friends get to know each other again, Clara pushes Jerry to examine why he abandoned his Amish beliefs.

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.

When Widow Emma Hochstetter discovers a run-away teenager in her barn, and the bishop asks her to provide a haven for a local woman and her two children she finds her quiet life has been interrupted. Then, her mother-in-law, Mary Ann, reveals one of her garden's hidden secrets, something very unexpected. Will she continue alone or will she accept the gifts God has given her?

After 10 years spent keeping house and raising her younger siblings, Sarah Yoder returns home to Promise Glen determined to make a fresh start. Her new job with neighbor Noah Raber's furniture business seems promising - until she and the woodworker clash over everything from the best way to reach new costumers to how to raise his mischievous six-year-old twin boys.

Dan left Ohio four years ago to join the Army and escape his parents and faith, and broke his girlfriend Erin's heart. Erin kept a secret after Dan left, telling no one. But Dan's heart has always belonged to Hope, his first love. Hope cut off contact with Dan when she found out about his Englisch girlfriend, Erin, but she has never stopped thinking about Dan. When Dan returns to Ohio and sees Hope, old feelings stir. But when a shocking secret is revealed, Hope refuses to let Dan back into her life. Until Gott opens her heart, and she decides to give Dan just one chance.

Maria's Rumspringa is a time to discern whether John is the one for her. While she cares for him, he is very cold and standoffish, and Maria does not believe he is capable of love. As she spends time in New York City, she meets handsome Matt. His compliments and affection sweep Maria off her feet but her heart yearns for John. As she prays to Gott to help her discern between John and Matt, Maria soon has her answer; an answer which takes her off guard and alters the course of her life forever.

Anna longs to escape her life in Lancaster County where she takes care of her ailing father and works in the family's small store. She has a crush on handsome Seth, but he never notices her. Anna dreams of rumspringa where she imagines having a fun and carefree life. When she finds herself stranded on a lonely country road and a storm springs up, she is rescued by handsome police officer Robert. As feelings between Anna and Robert grow, Seth finally notices Anna, and Anna finds herself torn between the two men.

Katie longs to escape her overly protective parents and meet the man Gott has destined for her but her parents are against Katie socializing with boys. Desperate to gain independence, Katie defies her parents, meeting Daniel. When her parents learn her secret, she fears she will never see Daniel again. When her parents introduce her to Caleb, Katie's heart sinks, and she is torn.

Annie is on the verge of losing her beloved bed-and-breakfast inn and desperately needs money to save it. After a devastating breakup with her fiancé, Annie's world crumbles. When Asher arrives in Lancaster County for an escape from the demands of his work, Annie has a very unexpected, yet pleasant, encounter with him. As Annie's world brightens, feelings grow between her and Asher. But her friend from childhood, Lawrence, isn't as welcoming of the Englisch stranger. As Annie wrestles with her inn and her feelings for Asher, she begins to look at Lawrence in a very unexpected light.

Amish widower Abram is devastated after losing his wife and son. Wracked with sorrow and guilt, he moves to Indiana, working 16-hour days to keep from focusing on his pain and grief. When he places a help wanted sign in his shop window, pretty Dawn Hartzler applies. While both have a growing attraction for one another, neither is ready to move on from their pasts. As Abram and Dawn grow closer, her ex-boyfriend, Daniel, comes back into her life, and Dawn believes they will reconcile.

Bridget is devastated when her boyfriend, Amos, breaks up with her, realizing that he had lied to her throughout their relationship. As her despair deepens, her worried parents arrange for her to spend time with her aunt in Ohio, hoping a change of scenery will lessen her heartbreak. As Bridget prays her heart will mend, she meets Isaac and feels her sadness melting away. As feelings grow, an unwanted visitor from her past reappears, begging forgiveness. As old feelings resurface for Bridget, she has a choice to make - go back to a life of lies or stay with a man who mended her heart.

Rebecca was confident and full of wit and humor, but her heart could never find the words to show her true feelings to Adam - the most popular boy in her community and only a year older. Unable to share the secrets deep within her heart, she finds solace by writing in her notebook - just her secret thoughts just for her. Then unexpectedly her younger sister Rachel announces to that she is to marry Adam!

As Anna's father tragically clings to life, she turns to her boyfriend for comfort. But Anna is shocked to find him cold, distant, and uncaring. While her heart is breaking, she turns to her best friend, Eleanor, for support and comfort, but instead finds herself being comforted by Eleanor's brother, Aaron, who is now living in the New Order. As feelings develop between Anna and Aaron, major conflict erupts between the two families. Torn between the man she loves or her family, Anna turns to God for help. But Aaron is hiding a tragic secret that he can't bear to tell Anna.

After the death of her beloved father, Sarah's world crumbles. She's set to embark on her Rumspringa, sent off to stay with her aunt and uncle by her emotionally cold mother against her wishes. Her cousin, Eva, is into everything Englisch, including boys, and is rebellious toward her faith. As Sarah misses Joshua, the boy she left behind and mourns her father, she finds herself falling for a charming Englisch boy. Sarah's emotions and thoughts flit from Joshua to Conner as her faith is tested and deep-rooted beliefs are questioned.

When a handsome English visitor arrives at Rachel King's door asking to see her recently deceased father it opens up a whole different world and some stunning revelations.

At age 73, Laura Kauffman knows she is closer to the end of life than the beginning. If God willed it, she would join her beloved late husband soon. Even so, Laura wonders what purpose God might have for her in this winter of her life - and why this season seems so lonely. Widower Zechariah Stutzman is facing his own barren season, despite the great-grandchildren swirling around him. With his Parkinson’s worsening, he had no choice but to move in with his grandson’s family, though now he feels adrift and useless.

For the past two years Belinda King, along with her two grown daughters and teenage son, has been struggling to keep the family greenhouse running. Despite disconcerting events that have threatened to put them out of business, they have survived two growing seasons. And now Belinda can focus on the two suitors vying for her attention. Herschel Fisher, a new acquaintance, makes her feel relaxed, and Monroe Esh, an admirer from her past, reminds her of her youth. But just when Belinda thinks she can choose between her suitors, life throws more trials her way.

Phineas King knows better than to expect anything but shock and pity wherever he shows his face. Horribly scarred from the tragic accident that claimed his mother's life, he chooses to keep his distance from everyone, focusing his time and energy on the bees his family raises. So why does he start finding excuses to seek out Deborah Lantz, the beautiful new arrival in town?

Chris Matlock, a wounded and weary ex-soldier, just wants peace in his life, and he believes he's found it when he visits Matthew and Jenny Bontrager. He envies their happiness and simple life but doesn't believe that life is meant for him. When he meets Matthew's sister, Hannah, a small spark of hope flares within him. Despite the clash of cultures between the former military man and the pacifist Amish woman, Chris and Hannah fall in love.

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.