Amish Mennonite Romance

Food and friendships bind souls in an Amish kitchen. Return to the Troyer farm, where, despite stressful changes occurring in their lives, Lyle and Heidi once again open up their Ohio home to those seeking to learn about Amish cooking.

Caught between love and loyalty, Tamara embarks on a heart-wrenching journey to find a way to protect her father and brothers while also following her own heart. In a story of resilience, sacrifice, and the enduring power of love, Tamara must navigate the complexities of family bonds and the quest for personal happiness in the face of adversity.

New to Stoney Ridge, schoolteacher Mollie has come to town for a fresh start. When Luke Schrock, new to his role as deacon, asks the church to take in foster girls from a group home, she's the first to raise her hand. The power of love, she believes, can pick up the dropped stitches in a child's heart and knit them back together. Mollie envisions sleepovers and pillow fights. What the 11-year-old twins bring to her home is anything but. Visits from the sheriff at midnight. And then the most humiliating moment of all: the girls accuse Mollie of drug addiction.

She's not allowed home or near the orchard. Her stepmother has disturbing news that even alienates her best-behaved daughter. How will Florence feel when she sees all the fruit on her beloved apple trees rotting? Why won't they take her advice, and why is her stepmother being so stubborn? Florence's younger half-sister is oblivious to the turmoil around her and is only worried about the useless caretaker looking after their aunt's farm.

Sara Murray had never met her mother’s parents and was surprised to learn after her death that they were Amish living in Pennsylvania. When she is finally able to make the trip to meet them, she is shocked to learn someone else has been living with them and pretending to be Sara. Soon she meets Brad Fuller, who is visiting her grandparents for Christmas. She likes him a lot, but even he seems to pull away from her, not being totally honest. Struggling, Sara finds an old canning jar hidden in the barn that is full of encouraging prayers.

Lenore Lapp is an Amish schoolteacher in her late 20s still living at home with her parents and grandparents. She thought love had passed her by until she meets Jesse Smucker, a widower with a baby daughter. She quickly falls in love with them both and accepts Jesse’s proposal of marriage, but Jesse breaks off their engagement when he realizes he can’t marry only for convenience. Resigned to living single, Lenore throws herself into caring for her elders. While working in her grandmother’s garden, she digs up an old jar.

Policewoman Rachel Troyer has always looked after her three elderly Amish aunts, proprietors of a farmhouse inn near Sugarcreek, Ohio. The idyllic town is popular with tourists, who come to sample its famous Amish goods. But one thing is clear to Rachel - Joe Matthews is no tourist. When the bearded stranger lands on her aunts' doorstep, begging shelter for himself and his young son, Rachel is suspicious.

The bonnet sisters are back! Could the arrival of Florence's baby soften Wilma's heart and mend a rift between two families? The girls are getting used to their new stepfather. Meanwhile, Hope has plans for a bright future with a certain young Englisher, who's interested in joining their faith, or is he?

Nancy Jantzi’s father had dared bring Englisch machinery onto their land, and ever since, things had gone downhill. Now, her family is in danger of losing their farm. The only way Nancy can help is by getting a job. After a tragic accident, Vernon Verkler is raising his two young nephews alone, but he is slowly drowning. He needs help - badly. When Nancy is recommended for the position, he agrees immediately.

Lately, nothing seems to go right for Ariel Winston. Her parents are divorced, her father is marrying a woman who seems to hate everything about her, and her mother is moving away to attend university. Even Ariel’s boyfriend Ron is no longer part of her life. When Ariel’s car breaks down outside of Baker’s Corner, Indiana, a chance encounter with the enigmatic Ike Gerhart opens a door to a world Ariel didn’t even know existed.

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....

Stranded in the snow, 18-year-old Lena Esh and her boyfriend, Josiah Witmer, need more than a place to stay for the night. Lena defied her strict family and their judgmental beliefs to run away with Josiah and have his baby. But she's starting to wonder if he can prove as responsible as he is passionate, and she isn't sure how - or if - they can ever find a place to truly call home.

Pregnant and desperate, Victoria Worthington runs to the only place that’s ever felt safe. For years she’s been controlled, first by her crime-boss father, then by her ex-boyfriend. Donning a hand-sewn dress, a kapp, and a new name, she escapes as Abby Martin to the Amish community of Harts Haven, where she spent happy summers with her grandparents. Taking a job as a maid at the local inn, Abby plans to repair her grandparents’ abandoned house and build a new life for her baby.

Clinton has died and May is left to fend for herself in a city where she knows almost no one and has no way of earning a living. Not knowing where Oba had wound up and realizing she can't return to her uncle's home after all he'd put her through, she decides to journey to the Amish community where she spent her first years, before her parents' died. Perhaps the relatives who once turned her away had had a change of heart and would be willing to take her in or help her get settled on her own.

Shy, skittish Rose Christner is more comfortable tending to the beehives on the family farm and keeping her aunt's unruly cats in line than attending social gatherings with the rest of the die youngie. A childhood trauma and secret shame keep her heart under lock and key, and Rose just cannot accept the sweet attention she's receiving from a handsome neighbor. But the more she shies away from Josiah Yoder, the more their families sneakily plot to bring them together.

Karl Graber is too busy struggling with his hardware store and two young daughters to indulge local matchmaker Rose Yoder’s schemes. After his wife’s death, the thought of loving and perhaps losing another woman holds no appeal. So while he’s relieved to learn he’s not on Rose’s list of potential husbands for new schoolteacher Sophie Eicher, he’s also surprised. Despite himself, Karl can’t help wondering what Rose thinks he lacks—and why outspoken, attractive Sophie has so little interest in marriage.

Abigail and Collin have an eight year old daughter through their arranged marriage. Abigail is being abused by her hot-tempered husband, however, and one day he simply drops dead. The community believes the death was no accident and the Bishop begins to investigate. Abigail is excommunicated pending the outcome but is rescued by the man she has loved all along, who joins her in her new adventure outside the Amish community.

Hannah has a secret that is eating her alive, and knowing what she does, she couldn't think of accepting Abel's offer to marry. She was far too broken and tainted. And living with the horrible secret she has had to keep all to herself over the past three years, it has become more and more difficult. Abel had been in love with Hannah since when they were young, and it's becoming more and more obvious to him that Hannah was no longer the innocent girl he used to know. But then he was also no longer the same man.

In the summer of 1951, 18-year-old Maggie Esh is in need of some hope. Sweet-spirited and uncommonly pretty despite struggling with a debilitating illness, she is accustomed to being treated kindly by the young men of her Old Order Amish church district. Yet no one but Jimmy Beiler ever asks her out, and she always declines, certain he only pities her. To make matters worse, Dat has recently remarried, less than a year after Maggie's mother died. And while her stepmother is kind, she's much younger than Mamm, and she simply doesn't understand Maggie or her illness the way Mamm did.

Ever since Hope's wedding, the Bruner/Baker family is getting used to having one less person in the household. One thing Cherish didn't expect was to gain an admirer among the wedding guests. But she's not complaining. When Debbie's parents visit, Debbie is forced to make some hard decisions. Meanwhile, Christina gives birth and has a surprise that shocks everyone. Will the fallout over the letters spell the end for Bliss and Adam?