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An Amish community is shocked when Hildie Weaver disappears, leaving her husband Daniel and her young children behind. Daniel struggles to care for his family and his friends and relatives are supportive, but unspoken questions and suspicions about Hildie cloud their relationships. Book #4 in the Ellie's People series.

Polly Miller doesn t want to move to Texas. No other Amish families live in Lone Prairie, and Polly loves her family and friends in Ohio. But her father s mind is made up. As Polly settles into her new life, she gains a non-Amish friend, Rose Ann, who shares her dresses and makeup with Polly. She also earns the attention of a young hired hand named Tom, who takes her to a rodeo and tells her how pretty she is. Will Polly commit herself to God by following...

Rachel, youngest child of Mennonite missionaries, visits with Amish grandparents and other relatives.

"In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli's subsequent...

Sarah Troyer s Amish childhood would be peaceful and calm except her mother is ill and their hired girl, Sadie Zook, treats Sarah unfairly. When her parents go to Arizona to see whether the climate helps her mother get better, Sarah tries to be brave and strong. Things begin looking up when a new hired girl takes Sadie s place, but then two tragedies hit Sarah s family and threaten to overwhelm her trust in God. Will grief and resentment win the day,...