Amish Fiction

Danielle Kent is anything but Amish. But as destiny would have it, she has fallen in love with an Amish man. Now she’s 18, pregnant, and hopeful that the child’s Amish father—Matthew Lapp—will do the right thing and marry her. She knows Matthew plans to leave his Colorado settlement for a life in the Englisch world. But that plan never included a baby. When Matthew walks away from her and their unborn child, she has nowhere to turn. Her unlikely friendship with Levi offers some comfort—yet they have so little in common.

Forbidden love or true faith. . . Lydia Esh’s younger sister Emma is running wild during Rumschpringa, causing the family major heartaches. Although it means risking her reputation, her job as a schoolteacher, and her courting relationship with Jakob Zook, Lydia attends parties to watch over Emma and protect her sister’s virtue. When Emma begins a relationship with Kyle, an Englischer, Lydia teams up with Kyle’s older brother, Caleb, to keep the couple apart. As Lydia and Caleb spend time together planning, Lydia falls for this forbidden love. Will Lydia give up the man she loves to ...

(Includes the bonus novelette Only Esther, a more traditional retelling of the Bible story.) To escape her Amish life for just one day, Esther Albrecht puts on Englisher clothing, sneaking off to go to the movies with her friends. That’s when Esther literally bumps into Xavier Carnegie, who gives them invitations to an elite masquerade gala at his parents' mansion. Xavier's parents are urging him to marry, since they won't let him access his inheritance or hand down their company to him until he does. To his dismay, they invite several other women from the gala along with Esther to their ...

Sheltered yet adventurous, Betsy Detweiler is on a mission to get out of Kentucky and experience new things in life. She's got a list—a life list. What better place to start than with her friends in beautiful Pinecraft, Florida? From the moment Betsy walks into the Snow Bird Golf Course to sign up for lessons, August Troyer is mesmerized. Betsy is a mass of contradictions—beautiful yet awkward, outgoing yet unsure, joyful yet hesitant. She's like no one he's ever met before, and as the only child of missionary parents, he's met a lot of people.

An extraordinarily beautiful Amish woman, a dangerous femme fatale, is the central figure in Linda Castillo's Her Last Breath, a story that reveals a dark side of Painter's Mill and its seemingly perfect Amish world. A rainy night, an Amish father returning home with his three children, a speeding car hurtling toward them out of nowhere. What at first seems like a tragic, but routine car accident suddenly takes on a more sinister cast as evidence emerges that nothing about the crash is accidental.

Bethel Graber’s heart was quietly broken years ago when the man she loved cut his ties from their Amish community, leaving her behind without explanation. She never expected to see him again, much less discover he is the new doctor in town. ***FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED*** Bethel waited patiently for the man she thought she would marry but he simply never returned from rumspringa. Burying her unrequited love deep within her heart, Bethel married another. Now she must live with the consequences of her choices, and Bethel finds herself a widow in severe financial hardship. Andy Bontranger ...

Discover a world of love, faith, and community. Follow the Lancaster County Amish as they navigate the challenges of balancing their beliefs with the allure of the wider world. Lydia Lapp and Samuel Stoltzfus's relationship is causing quite a stir in the community. As they work hard to prove their love is real and committed to living an Amish life together, they face numerous challenges along the way. Meanwhile, Hannah Fisher and Daniel Byler's relationship is tested when his past comes back to haunt him. Hannah must decide whether to stand by Daniel or listen to the community's warnings. ...

Sarah Yoder pushed her rumspringa back a year because her grandmother fell ill. As much as she has always felt connected to the Amish community she grew up in, she needs to see if the city holds anything better for her. She doubts it, but she has to see, right? So, off she goes. And for a year, she's not all that impressed with the city. George Hartford is in his last year of college. Last semester. He's just doing his required internship, and then he'll be done with the degree he's worked so hard to earn. As he's doing repair work on a property that one of the employees' friends lives in, ...

Lorie Kauffman is grief stricken when her father passes away unexpectedly. But her heartache quickly turns to bewilderment when she discovers that he had been leading two lives - one of simplicity and hard work in Wells Landing and one fraught with painful ordeals in Tulsa. As she starts digging into her family's past, Lorie finds that she's no longer certain where she belongs. Lorie knows that if she leaves Wells Landing, she may never be able to return.

Between work and keeping his little brothers out of trouble, Austin Petersheim barely has time to think, much less court the most popular maiden in town. But if he can establish a local market to direct-sell his family's goods, he'll stand out as a potential husband. He's so grateful for the help of his longtime friend, Hannah Yutzy, who has such practical ideas—and is so easy to talk to....

Long-time residents of Promise Lodge welcome a wave of newcomers that includes a pretty potter who's come to help an expectant couple, and a hard-working dairy expert ready to manage the herds on the expanding Burkholder farm. Then there's Isaac Chupp, the handsome, charming son of a notoriously unyielding Bishop from nearby Coldstream. Isaac has recklessly rebelled against his dat, and his bad boy reputation precedes him. Now he seeks a fresh start, applying for work at Dale Kraybill's bulk store.

Nancy, the twins' mother, is up to her old matchmaking tricks. When Daisy suddenly meets a man from out of town, Nancy's plans are thrown into disarray, but she must act quickly when she notices that the other twin, Lily, is keeping bad company. Does Daisy have to choose between the man she loves and staying in the same town as her family? Will Lily see that her man is totally unsuitable?

Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named Milan Swanz, was chained to a stake and burned alive. It is an appalling and eerily symbolic crime against an upstanding husband and father.

Love is a promise - for better or worse. When a group of eight cousins and friends leaves their Indiana Amish community for a weekend getaway, a horrific accident brings them home forever changed. Permanently disabled by the accident, Wayne Lambright struggles to take care of himself. He can't imagine being able to be the kind of husband his fiance, Loraine Miller, needs. Determined to sacrifice his happiness to give her a better life, he breaks their engagement.

Under the Harvest Moon by Beth Wiseman: When Naomi Dienner is suddenly widowed, she never expects to find love again...until she meets Brock Mulligan, an English family friend hired at harvest time. Will God open Naomi's heart - and give Brock his own second chance at love? Other stories: Love and Buggy Rides by Amy Clipston; Mischief in the Autumn Air by Vannetta Chapman; and A Quiet Love by Kathleen Fuller.

From best-selling authors in the Amish genre come three sweet stories centered around Amish traditions and the possibility of romance.

She stopped in Lancaster County on a whim. She stays for love. Traveling nurse Olivia Ellis stops at an Amish Christmas market, drawn by the nostalgia of visiting with her late parents. Betrayed and jaded, she's buried herself in temporary assignments - until fate brings her face-to-face with widowed craftsman Matthias Yoder and his daughter Emma. In their world of simple faith, she discovers healing she never expected. His gift for creating therapeutic equipment for sick children reminds her why she once loved medicine, while Emma's innocent wisdom breaks through her defenses. As their two...

Michelle Taylor is not who her new family in Lancaster County believes her to be. The Lapps were looking for their long-lost granddaughter when they met Michelle, and she assumed the identity of Sara Murray. Once homeless and hopeless, Michelle has come to love her new Amish friends and even considers the idea of romance among them. Finding an old blue jar in the barn that is filled with slips of paper containing thoughts, quotes, and prayers by an unknown author becomes a boost to Michelle’s budding faith.

Enjoy a simple Amish Christmas in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, that is sweetened by second chances, trimmed in love, and wrapped in faith. This collection includes Lucy's Christmas Sunbeam by Anne Blackburne, A Bird-in-Hand Christmas by Amy Clipston, Christmas Lily by Amy Lillard, Leaving Lancaster by Mindy Steele.

A Thread of Mercy A Willow Creek Amish Romance By Eliza Maplewood When midwife Sarah Esh is forced to step away from the calling that once defined her, she finds herself unraveling—her hands unsteady, her spirit shaken, and her heart unsure of what remains. Enter Samuel King—the quiet carpenter with a past of his own, returning to Willow Creek after years among the Englisch. Tasked with building a cradle for a child Sarah can no longer deliver, Samuel offers not just wood and skill, but something Sarah thought she had lost forever: patience, understanding, and the quiet grace of second ...