Amish Historical Fiction

Award-winning author Elizabeth Byler Younts delivers a powerful novel of grief, friendship, and forgiveness filled with her signature lyricism and emotional depth. "Younts's powerful novel reverberates with love that crosses religious and racial boundaries to find the humanity that connects us...

Rachel Yoder, a New Order Amish woman, lost her husband and son in a tragic accident two years ago. Now, returning to her aging parents with her young daughter, she has resigned herself to the life of a widow. With a subdued but cheerful heart she helps her family run a bed-and-breakfast in a quaint Lancaster county town.

Mercy Found Along the Oregon Trail: A Child Leads the Way is about a young, single Amish woman traveling with her parents along the Oregon Trail. She is both adamant about remaining unmarried, becoming a schoolteacher, and having many children. The only problem with her plan is that Amish schoolteachers must remain single and have no children of their own. She is very conflicted but strong willed and with the help of an older woman friend on the train, a young man who loves her, and a very large surprise found along the trail, she may just be able to overcome the odds.