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Jesse Montgomery is beginning to feel restless. Though he's grateful to his friends Colin and Emma for helping him get on his feet again after a few bad choices and some hard living, surely the Lord doesn't want him to stay in Apple Grove forever. Doesn't the Almighty have plans for this reformed rowdy cowboy to build a life of his own? When an unscrupulous cattle baron tries to steal Amish land, Jesse intervenes and is wounded. Lovely Katie Miller,...
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Hannah Yoder loves her quiet life on the banks of the Conestoga Creek. In 1842, this corner of Lancaster County is settled and peaceful -- yet problems lurk beneath the placid façade. Hannah's father worries about the spread of liberal ideas from their Mennonite and Brethren neighbors. And Hannah blames herself for a tragedy that struck their home nine years ago. She strives to be the one person who can bind the threads of her family together in...
3) Arms of love
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Northern Pennsylvania, 1777; Adam Wyse is no patriot, or so the core of his Amish faith decrees. Yet two wars ravage his heart: the longing for Lena Yoder and the burning desire to defend the country that gave him religious freedom. Left to raise her two siblings alone, Lena is torn between her beliefs and her attraction to the rebellious Adam - especially when his older brother offers a chance for her to regain a sense of balance and rightness with...
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Mattie Schrock is no stranger to uprooting her life. Even as her father relocated her family from one Amish community to the next, she always managed to find a footing in their new homes. Now as the Schrock family plans to move west from Somerset County to a fledgling Amish settlement in Indiana, she looks forward to connecting with old friends who will be joining them from another Pennsylvania community--friends like Jacob Yoder, who has always held...
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Caleb Bender and other members of an Ohio Amish community decide to relocate to Mexico to avoid conflicts with Ohio's laws. Caleb's family are the first settlers. His daughters eventually connect with the local people, but the family is endangered by the strife following the Mexican Revolution.
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Amish pacifism is sorely tested in the Paradise Valley settlement in the 1920s. When an army of bandits descends on them, the Amish are saved by government troops who prove as cruel as the bandits themselves. Then a bishop travels to Mexico, and Caleb's daughters are finally able to marry - though the ban still looms for Miriam. As Caleb's hope of peace and freedom in Mexico slips away, he ponders: In times of trouble, on whom should we rely?
7) The crossing
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The Crossing opens a new trilogy about the years leading up to the Civil War. Widower Daniel Tremayne returns to his Amish roots, while his son, Yancy, joins a Virginia militia and becomes one of "Stonewall's Boys" in the War Between the States. Rich with characters struggling to make sense of the war and Amish pacifism while maintaining loyalty to family, the first in The Last Cavaliers series combines adventure and romance in a thick historical...
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"Morgan Tremayne leaves his Amish heritage to quietly seek his own way. Spurning slavery, he establishes a Virginia horse farm ... and a reputation as a good and upright man who shelters Jolie, a young girl left homeless when one of the neighbors dies. Then the horrific events of the Civil War threaten Morgan's carefully built life. He bravely follows his employer, Robert E. Lee into battle, but it will take a life-changing injury on Gettysburg's...
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