This heartwarming prequel to The Shunning is a tender story of love, belonging, and the courage to move forward. After her widowed father remarries, nineteen-year-old Clara Bender is no longer needed to help run his household. Marriage seems like her best hope of moving out, but there are few young men in her tiny Indiana Amish community. When she comes across letters from her mother's aunt Ella Mae Zook, she sets off to visit Lancaster County's Hickory Hollow to decide where her future lies. Ella Mae is not quite ready to move from the farmhouse where she and her recently deceased husband spent over fifty happy years, but her children are eager to resettle her, making Clara's visit seem like an answer to prayer. The two women form a warm bond while restoring an heirloom wedding quilt and sharing their lives, with Ella Mae confiding about a tragedy from her courting years. Eventually, Ella Mae suggests Clara stay for the summer, allowing Ella Mae more time with her and giving Clara an opportunity to meet the area's eligible young men. But when the unexpected happens, will Clara find where her heart truly belongs?

When Katie Lapp finds the satin infant gown in the dusty leather trunk of her parents' attic, she knows it holds a secret she must discover. Why else would her Amish mother, a plain and simple woman who embraces the Old Order laws, hide the beautiful baby dress in the attic? But nothing could have prepared Katie for the startling news that stumbles out of her anguished parents on the eve of her wedding to Bishop John. Will Katie suddenly find herself a stranger in the community she has always called home?

Katie Lapp, a young Amish woman who questioned the strict rules of her upbringing and even her own identity, has been shunned from her Amish community. Now known as Katherine, she sets out to find her birth mother, and a life she has never known. Her birth mother is seriously ill and she must struggle to find her, before it's too late.

Katherine Mayfield, die nuwe eienaar van die Mayfield-landgoed, het haar lewe lank van ’n luukse lewe gedroom. Maar soos die jare verbygaan, mis sy haar Amish-gesin en dierbare vriendin Mary Stoltzfus. Verban uit die eenvoudige lewe wat sy eens geken het, vind Katherine troos in vrywillige diens aan terminaalsiekes, ’n diens van liefde wat sy hoop eer aan haar biologiese ma se herinnering sal bring. Sonder dat Katherine daarvan bewus is, probeer haar lang verlore liefde, Daniel Fisher, haar desperaat opspoor, net om telkens voor ’n toe deur te staan te kom. Intussen verlustig sy haar in die moderne wêreld en geniet die aandag van Justin Wirth, ’n aantreklike man wat om haar liefde meeding. Herinnerings aan haar kinderjare saam met Daniel leef in haar hart, en tog is haar huidige lewe ver verwyderd van die bekende Lancaster-distrik. Katherine bly verlang na opregte vrede en sy word gedwing om haar verlede nog een keer te trotseer.

HERITAGE OF LANCASTER COUNTY Journey into the fascinating world of the Amish with the three-part story of a young woman who must face her past in order to discover her future. The Shunning Katie Lapp, a young Amish woman, lives a quiet life in Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania, but after one visit to the attic, her world begins to crumble. The Confession With her identity shattered, Katie sets out on a journey of discovery that will take her into a world she’s never known. The Reckoning Katie is living the life she used to dream about, but her heart yearns for her Amish friends and the love she left behind.