A Secret Identity (35 page)

When Rebecca’s mother sends her back to the old home community in Milroy to be with her aunt during and after her childbirth, Rebecca determines to find answers that will resolve her conflicted feelings. Faith, love, and tradition all play a part in Rebecca’s divine destiny.

Rebecca Keim returns to Wheat Ridge full of resolve to make her relationship with John Miller work. But in her absence, John has become suspicious of the woman he loves. Before their conflict can be resolved, John is badly injured and Rebecca is sent back to Milroy to aid her seriously ill Aunt Leona.

In Milroy, Rebecca once again visits the old covered bridge over the Flatrock River, the source of her past memories and of her promise made so long ago.

Where will Rebecca find happiness? In Wheat Ridge with John, the man she has agreed to marry…or should she stake her future on the memory that persists…and the ring she has never forgotten? Does God have a perfect will for Rebecca—and if so how can she know that will?

Rebecca Keim is now engaged to John Miller, and they are looking forward to life together. When Rebecca goes to Milroy to attend her beloved teacher’s funeral, John receives a mysterious letter accusing Rebecca of scheming to marry him for money. Determined to forsake his past jealousies and suspicions, John tries hard to push the accusations from his mind. But can he? And does Rebecca love him?

Upon Rebecca’s return, disturbing news quickly follows. She is named heir to her teacher’s three farms. But there’s a condition—she must marry an Amish man. When John confronts Rebecca, she claims to know nothing. When the vengeful woman who thought she was the heir to the property arrives, she reveals secrets that has the whole community reeling.

Rachel’s Secret
by BJ Hoff

Beloved author BJ Hoff delights faithful readers with her compelling series The Riverhaven Years.

When the wounded Irish-American riverboat captain Jeremiah Gant bursts into the rural Amish setting of Riverhaven, he brings chaos and conflict to the community—especially for young widow Rachel Brenneman. The unwelcome outsider needs a safe place to recuperate before continuing his secret role as an Underground Railroad conductor. Neither he nor Rachel is prepared for the forbidden love that threatens to endanger a man’s mission, a woman’s heart, and a way of life for an entire people.

Where Grace Abides
by BJ Hoff

Secrets, treachery, and persecution are only a few of the challenges that test Rachel’s faith and her forbidden love for the outsider. Gant’s own hopes and dreams are dealt a life-changing blow, rendering the vow he made to Rachel seemingly impossible to honor.

The Riverhaven Community finds their gentle, unassuming lives of faith jeopardized by the outside world as those striving to help runaway slaves escape face deception and the danger of discovery.

Shadows of Lancaster County
by Mindy Starns Clark

Anna thought she’d left the tragedies of the past behind when she moved from Pennsylvania to California, but when her brother vanishes from the genetics lab where he works, Anna has no choice but to head back home. Using skills well-honed in Silicon Valley, she follows the high-tech trail her brother left behind, a trail that leads from the simple world of Amish farming to the cutting edge of DNA research and gene mapping.

Anna must depend on her instincts, her faith in God, and the help of the Amish community to find her brother. She also must face her own shadows—and pray that she’s stronger than the grief that threatens to overwhelm them all.

A Widow’s Hope
by Mary Ellis

After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown is determined to make a new life with her sister’s family. But when she sells her farm in Pennsylvania and moves with her sheep to Ohio, the wool starts to fly. Her deacon brother-in-law finds just about everything about Hannah vexing. When his widower brother shows interest in the young and beautiful widow, the deacon turns to prayer for guidance.

Hannah thought she could never love again, until she meets Seth. Unfortunately, his only interest is her sheep. He is content in his bachelor state and slow to recognize his daughter’s need for a mother. Will he open his heart again?

Never Far From Home
by Mary Ellis

Fifteen-year-old Emma Miller finishes school, starts her own wool business, and is longing for someone to court her. When the object of her affection is a handsome English sheep farmer with a fast truck and modern methods, her deacon father, Simon, knows he has more than the farm alliance to worry about.

Emma isn’t the only one with longings in Holmes County. Her Aunt Hannah wants a baby and her Uncle Seth hopes he’ll reap financial rewards when he takes a risk with his harvest. But are these the dreams God has for this Amish family?

Plain Jayne
by Hillary Manton Lodge

Jayne Tate loves her life as it is—living in a big city, working as a reporter for a fast-paced newspaper, and dating a guy who knows nothing about her past. When her father passes away she’s forced to take another look at what she wants out of life. After losing out on the big career opportunity, she heads to Oregon Amish country, seeking solace and maybe a big story.

Even in this land of buggies and bonnets, Jayne finds life complicated. Is her growing friendship with the mysterious and handsome Levi Burkholder just about research? And what’s a latte-drinking, laptop-using, motorcycle-riding reporter to do when her focus starts to change?

Simply Sara
by Hillary Manton Lodge