Amish Fiction

Essie Lapp's birthday is doubly blessed. There's a delicious meal to savor with her family, and the sweet gift of time spent with her beau, Harlan. Over two years they've forged a bond as strong and hopeful as a tree reaching for the sky. To practical-minded Essie, there's comfort in knowing exactly what her future will bring. Yet Gott has his plan, and it soon turns her family's world upside down....

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.

Leisel Bachmann left her Amish roots and beloved sisters to pursue a career in medicine without a second thought. She has an Englisch boyfriend, Nick Jordan, and dreams of a new life - but those dreams come crashing down when her sister Marie is diagnosed with cancer. Soon nothing is going as she planned - not her state boards, not her first nursing job, and certainly not her relationship with Nick.

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 ...

Everyone in Wells Landing has long expected Sadie Kauffman and Chris Flaud to marry, despite Sadie's telling them differently. While she loves Chris, she sees him more as a friend than a husband. Yet at 22, Sadie, the plainest girl in her group, is also the only one who is still single. Perhaps it's time to be practical and marry Chris, though he still has not asked. But when Sadie meets a kind, handsome Mennonite, it seems that her prayers have been answered....

Can love and faith stitch together a broken heart and create a new family? Sarah, a quilt-maker and mother to young Eli, has built a life of quiet resilience after her husband's death. When her old childhood friend Jonas returns from the Englischer world to settle his father's estate, he brings with him a storm of change, reigniting old friendships and sparking new possibilities. Little by little, Jonas pulls Sarah and Eli from the fragile grief still burdening them, offering a window into a new future. Together. But when her son falls ill, fear casts a shadow over their budding connection....

A Shattered Woman with a Dark Secret. A Compassionate Man Drawn to Aid Her. And a Jealous Rival Poised to Strike. Can Love Prevail in the Midst of Explosive Truths and Bitter Envy? Lilah Renno is a shadow of her former self since her return from Rumspringa. Silent, and withdrawn, her worried parents send her to her aunt in another community in hopes that the change will reignite her spirit. There in Winesburg, she is charged with managing her aunt's roadside sandwich stand. Elijah Petersheim is taken aback to find the Smucker stand under the care of a somber newcomer. Seeking to draw her ...

The Amish community of Lancaster is being terrorized by barn fires. David and Malinda Beiler's barn was the first to go. The clues are sparse, but Levi, the Beilers' oldest son, happened to be awake in the middle of the night and spotted a white vehicle driving past the house with its lights off. Sarah, David and Malinda's daughter, observes her parents' agony. Not only is she afraid and wishing she could protect her parents, she's entranced by the flirtatious Matthew Stoltzfus.

*Always FREE with Kindle Unlimited* A new dawn approaches. But heartbreak lies ahead. Ellie and Daniel are separated by a seemingly bottomless chasm of their own making. Emotions run high and patience runs thin. Only a willing heart can turn things around. But who will take the first step? Will Erin follow through on her threats, and what will happen if she does? Surprises are in store for everyone, and not all good. But not all are bad either, as there are surprising new beginnings for some. This is the third book in the Longings for Faith trilogy. Will faith finally prevail? Book 1: An ...

In the tranquil Amish community of Harmony Hill, Catherine Yoder has always been the steadfast friend, quietly supporting those around her while harboring her own unspoken feelings for Jared King. A widower still grieving the loss of his beloved wife, Jared is consumed by memories that seem to overshadow the possibility of new love. But as fate brings them together on a community project, he begins to see Catherine in a new light. As their lives intertwine, Catherine grapples with the dilemma of her heart. She has loved Jared from afar, yet fears that expressing her feelings might be seen ...

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.

She left to chase her future. Now she's back, faced with old heartbreak and the man she never forgot... After three years in the English world, Anna Detweiler returns to Hickory Valley to care for her ailing mother. Her homecoming brings more than memories. It stirs regret, questions of belonging, and a second chance she never expected. Daniel Wagler remembers the girl who left without a word. Anna remembers writing letters that went unanswered. Now a carpenter with a steady life, his battered heart is still haunted by the woman who returns. And when they work together on the storm-damaged ...

Susie Mast's Old Order life in Lancaster County's Hickory Hollow has been shaped by events beyond her control, with the tragic deaths of her Dat and close-in-age brother casting a particularly long shadow. Now 22, Susie remains unmarried despite her longtime affection for friend Obie Yoder. Believing Obie might never show romantic interest in her, Susie accepts Del Petersheim's invitations - it is only after Obie leaves to take an apprenticeship that Susie realizes her mistake.

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.

A grieving widow. A quiet carpenter. Will Gott lead them to a new love? Rachel Bontrager has spent two years mourning the husband she lost too soon. Her days are filled with quiet work and prayer. Now, she's pouring her heart into a memorial quilt honoring Jacob's memory. When she asks talented carpenter Isaiah Yoder to build a special frame for the quilt, she finds comfort in his steady presence. Isaiah is patient and kind, a man whose quiet strength helps ease her sorrow. As they work together, a gentle friendship grows into something neither expected. But is Rachel ready to let go of the...

Can love survive the test of time and temptation in the heart of Amish country? Leah and Jacob's once-idyllic courtship faces its greatest challenge yet with the return of Isaac and Rachel from their Rumspringa. Her time away changed Rachel, and Leah worries her dear friend will leave the community forever. When Jacob devotes himself to helping Rachel reintegrate into the community at the expense of spending time with Leah, she questions where his heart truly lies. With each passing day, the distance between Leah and Jacob grows, while Isaac's presence offers unexpected comfort—and a ...

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?

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 ...

Free to download with Kindle Unlimited The man she loves. The woman closer than a sister. The ultimate betrayal. When Esther Lapp suffers a most cruel betrayal, she packs up her life, to live with her uncle LeRoy in his community. Embittered and distrustful she meets handsome and charming Englischer Simon Davidson who offers no judgment and accepts her for who she is. When a storm, destroys her Uncle’s business, Esther grows stronger in her conviction that God neither cares, or controls what happens, and especially more so, when she meets sweet natured Lydia Bontrager who lives with ...

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 ...