Amish Fiction

Join Merry Hanson, a very modern 15-year-old living in Pennsylvania's Amish country, as she faces the true-to-life struggles and heartfelt triumphs of growing up to be the best she can be in God's eyes. When Lissa Vyner shows up bruised and beaten, Merry enlists the help of her Amish friend Rachel Zook.

Will a surprising love flourish within the confines of tradition? Or is it doomed before it even begins? Naomi Bontrager, a skilled baker known for her steadfast commitment to her community's Ordnung, finds herself drawn to Eli Hersh, an innovative carpenter whose unconventional methods both intrigue and concern her. Torn between the comfort of tradition and the allure of Eli's adventurous spirit, Naomi must navigate the expectations of her family and the well-intentioned meddling of those around her. When Eli's cutting-edge stable design unexpectedly collapses and he departs on Rumspringa,...

The Amish of Summer Grove series continues, as Old Order Amish Ariana and troubled college student Skylar face the reality that nothing about their lives is what they thought to be true. The second book in the Amish of Summer Grove series explores the changes in the Brenneman family, as Skylar joins them and Ariana navigates the foreign and undesirable Englischer world. Can she help the Nashes learn about the God she loves?

For someone so strong-willed and certain, Ella Yoder has never been more unsure of her life. It's been a year since she convinced her father to move with her and her younger sister Junia to Marigold, Ohio, to open E and J Grocery. Ella's got a keen eye for running a business and has big dreams to expand. But her plans are stalled because Junia refuses to lift a finger at the store—or listen to her about anything.

With her copper red hair and inquisitive personality, Mary is an anomaly in her Amish community in western New York. She tries to join in the fun with the other youth as they gather for hymn singings and games, but she finds it all rather dull. None of the young men are interested in her and she's even less interested in them. With each passing year, she feels more and more out of place and stifled by life as a misfit in a rural Amish community.

Old Order Amish Rhoda Byler’s unusual gift and her remarkable abilities to grow herbs and berries have caused many to think her odd. As rumors mount that Rhoda’s "gift" is a detriment to the community, she chooses isolation, spending her time in her fruit garden and on her thriving canning business. Miles away in Harvest Mills, Samuel King struggles to keep his family’s apple orchard profitable. As the eldest son, Samuel, farms with his brothers, the irrepressible Jacob and brash Eli, while his longtime girlfriend, Catherine, remains hopeful that Samuel will marry her when he feels financially stable.

Where the Heart Returns – A Willow Creek Amish Romance She left once to find herself. Now she must return to face the love she left behind. Seven years ago, Lydia Stutzman walked away from Willow Creek, leaving behind her Amish community—and Eli Fisher, the man who once held her heart. She told herself she needed freedom, a chance to forge her own path beyond the fields and traditions of home. But in doing so, she took with her a secret that would change everything. Now, with her young son Levi by her side, Lydia returns, seeking refuge from the past she can no longer escape. She knows ...

Yvonne Wilson makes the trek from Texas to Indiana with just one goal in mind: to convince Amishman Jake Lantz to sell her client a rare book from his collection. But Jake is as strong-willed as Yvonne. On the eve of his grandfather’s death, Jake vowed never to sell the book, and he intends to keep that promise. But he can’t say more than that, having never read it and not knowing why it was so dear to his grossdaadi.

Housed in a rustic red barn, the Simple Gifts crafts shop celebrates the talents of the Amish of Willow Ridge and the faith that inspires them. For the acceptance of simplicity opens the path to love. As far as Edith Riehl is concerned, the baby twins thrust suddenly into her arms are a heaven-sent gift. Unable to conceive, she longs to be a mother with a home of her own.

When nurse Anna Hershberger finds a man with a bullet wound who begs her to help him without taking him to the hospital, she has a choice to make. Going against his wishes, she takes him to the hospital to help him after he passes out. She thinks she made the right decision...until an assassin storms in with a gun. Anna has no choice but to go on the run with her patient. This handsome stranger, who says his name is Connor, insists that they can’t contact the police for help because there are moles leaking information. His mission is to shut down a local sex trafficking ring targeting ...

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?

He’s bent on breaking the rules. She’s determined to keep them. Sparks fly when opposites attract in this fun holiday romance! When Randy Stoltz comes home for Christmas on college break, he isn’t counting on knocking beautiful Holly Remington off her feet in the ice skating rink. Neither is he counting on falling head-over-heals for his brother Wesley’s ex-love interest. Holly’s different from any woman Randy’s ever known, and she challenges him to do hard things, namely, reconciling with his Amish grandparents.

A wrong turn in a rainstorm leads Englisher Amelia Devries to Michael Hostetler - and the young Amishman's charming Old Order community of Hickory Hollow. Despite their very different backgrounds, Amelia and Michael both feel hemmed in by the expectations of others and struggle with how to find room for their own hopes. And what first seems to be a chance encounter might just change their lives forever.

Ava Sullivan's father locked her up in their basement for over ten years--all because she witnessed him attempting to kill her mother. Once she is finally free, she leaves the Amish and moves to New York City with big plans of going to college for writing--instead, she is tricked and lured into forced prostitution with the false promises of getting a publishing contract. After she testifies against the criminals in court who stole two years of her life, she decides to go back to Unity, Maine to see her friends from childhood even though her pimp threatens to track her down and kill her if ...

Download for FREE with Kindle Unlimited Ellie Miller reluctantly returns home. After her husband Amos dies, she tries to make it on her own with her two young children but eventually is convinced to return to live with her parents and a sister who seems to resent her presence amidst her own problems. But that also means being pressured to marry again. Of course her mom has just the perfect person in mind--Jacob Girod--himself a recent widow with two children of his own, but she's hoping for more than a marriage of convenience and doesn't know what to do. But it's seeing a stranger from her ...

*Download and read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited* Book 1: An Amish Goodbye Book 3: An Amish Dawn (Available May 2015) A storm is brewing. Ellie's world is rocked when Erin pays a visit to the King farm. Daniel holds dark secrets, and Erin plots to destroy the happiness that Ellie has finally found. Nothing is what it seems, and hearts are broken. Ellie feels anger like never before, yet is unsure about what to do. Will her and Daniel's relationship survive? Or will she make a decision in the heat of a life-changing moment that will ruin their future together? This is the second book in the...

Can the quiltmaker's tender heart mend her blacksmith's shattered dreams? Hannah has always been captivated by Samuel, her best friend's brother, whose engagement's abrupt end left him adrift. Their friendship blossoms into something more with a simple invitation for a buggy ride, sparking rumors and whispers in their tight-knit Amish community. But when a snowstorm forces Hannah to seek refuge in Samuel's home, their unchaperoned night, spent in utmost propriety, ignites scandal. As dawn breaks and gossip swirls, Hannah wrestles with doubt: Is their budding love true, or is she merely a ...

Everything has led up to this moment in Lizzie Glick's life. All of her curiosity, concern, and dreams have pointed to this time when she must make some very big decisions. Will she join the Church? Will she continue teaching? Will she marry Stephen? Questions and indecision as well as answers and certainty enter Lizzie's life in Big Decisions, the third and final novel in this series written by an Amish author and based on true-life experiences.

When widowed Millie Fisher moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio, she notices one thing right away - the young Amish are bungling their courtships and marrying the wrong people! A quiltmaker by trade, Millie has nevertheless stitched together a few lives in her time, with truly romantic results. Her first mission? Her own niece, widowed gardener Edith Hochstetler, recently engaged to rude, greedy Zeke Miller. Anyone can see he's not right for such a gentle young woman - except Edith herself.

Sophie Wittenbauer left her strict Mennonite hometown under a cloud of shame and regret. After a rough childhood, her teenage poor choices harmed others, leaving her with no choice but to change her life. Her entry-level writing job at a newspaper puts her in the right place at the right time to overhear office gossip about a prisoner who has information on a decades-old unsolved crime. While the other reporters write off the tip as the ravings of an angry criminal, Sophie can't ignore it because she knows the name of this prisoner from her old life.