amish

The thrilling conclusion of Daughters of Lancaster series . The Amish bishop's daughter is off limits to an outsider like Jimmy - even though Jimmy Scott's typical American upbringing isn't as far as removed from the Amish as it may appear. After his mother dies from cancer, Jimmy learns he was not his parents' biological child. What his father reveals about Jimmy's first year of life is shocking.

Abbey runs a successful quilt shop and is engaged to a wonderful Amish man. But then duty calls. When she leaves her beloved shop and patient fiance' to attend to her mother in need, a double tragedy strikes, shattering Abbey's world in one fell swoop.

Despite being raised in a traditional Old Order Amish family, seventeen-year-old Hannah Lapp desires to break with custom, and marry outside the cloistered community. She's been in love with Mennonite Paul Waddell for three years, and before retruning to college for his senior year, Paul asks Hannah to be his wife. Hannah accepts, aware that her choice will change her relationship with her family forever.

Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.

An Amish family, traveling by buggy, spends a day doing errands in the village, visiting, and returning home in time for supper.

Ruth Zook returns home to Holmes County, Ohio, carrying a heavy suitcase and a heavier heart. Coerced into becoming a drug mule, Ruth retaliates by destroying her illicit burden and pays for it with her life. When Fannie Helmuth confesses that she was similarly coerced, Sheriff Bruce Robertson realizes that the drug dealers' operation reaches all the way to Florida's Pinecraft Amish community. He immediately moves the investigation South, where more innocent lives are in jeopardy.

Contains color photographs depicting Indiana's Amish people and their daily activities.