Linda Byler

Left widowed with six children, Ruth does not know how she will be able to make ends meet, but as Christmas approaches, generous gifts begin anonymously arriving at her doorstep, leaving Ruth to wonder if they come from a new admirer.

"Mary Stoltzfus is thirty years old, splashed with freckles, and unmarried. In her Amish world, that qualifies her to be called an old maid. She is living her quiet schoolteacher life in the Lancaster County Amish community when she gets a surprising invitation in the mail one day. Would she come to Montana to teach? Of course not, she decides, fully at home in eastern Pennsylvania, where she can go out to eat in dozens of restaurants, do her laundry...

After her Amish family moves to Montana, Sadie Miller decides to ride on the range by her home even though there is a group of snipers killing horses, as she also finds herself torn between two men, Daniel, a dedicated family man, and Mark, a man with secrets from his past.

In colonial America, a Native American orphan raised among the Amish explores her identity, torn between two cultures and unsure of where she belongs. When she's forced to leave everything behind and forge her own path, where -- and with whom -- will Hester choose to make her new home? Hester on the Run , Book 1: One April morning, an Amish couple finds a Native American infant, wrapped in deerskin and placed next to the spring where they gather water....

Lancaster County's Amish are terrorized by two suspicious barn fires that force them to reconsider their traditional hands-off approach to violence, while the daughter of one of the victims becomes entranced by her friend's boyfriend.

Sadie and her new husband, Mark, face danger when FBI agents warn them that Sadie's horse is extremely valuable and could be the target of some violent horse thieves, as Sadie also contends with Mark's unexpected black moods.

Sarah Beiler does what she can to try to stop the rash of barn-burnings within her community, while dealing with her attraction to two very different young men.

David Stolzfus and Anna Fisher have always been best friends. They live on neighboring farms in Lancaster County, they walked to school together-- but they've always denied any romantic inclinations. When David,full of questions about faith, family, and the world, travels to Australia, Anna is devastated. She receives a letter from Leon Beiler, a young man she can't deny she has feelings for. How can she reconcile a lifetime of close friendship with...

It's 1931, and times are tough for the Miller family, who are raising eight children in the midst of the Great Depression. When Eli Miller passes away unexpectedly, and then a fire destroys their barn, Annie has no idea how she'll make ends meet. The Amish community rallies around her and the children, as is their custom, but as days turn into weeks and then into months, Annie's friends and neighbors return to their own routines and seem to expect...

"The first in a captivating series about an independent Amish woman and her struggles in career and romance"--