Amish Fiction

Thirteen years ago, two little Amish girls disappeared from an orchard in Whinburg Township, Pennsylvania. It was just a blip on the TV news … until it became very, very personal for Megan and Ashley Pearson.

While a young Dokterfraa learns to heal the body, the Great Physician heals the heart …

Sarah Yoder is learning to serve her Old Order Amish community as a Dokterfraa, creating teas and tinctures from the herbs in her garden and fields. But her latest patient isn’t responding to anything she concocts—a woman who, in Sarah’s mind, would be better off in any place but the one she has.

Meanwhile, Sarah’s relatives can’t resist doing some matchmaking between her and a prosperous visitor to their community. She should be willing for God to show her His choice of partner … and not allow her friendship with her neighbor, Henry Byler, to grow into anything more. Henry has seen some success as a potter since a major department-store chain commissioned his work. The trouble is that they're telling the world he's Amish. Though he was raised in the faith and now lives in Amish country, he never joined church—and doesn’t plan to. Which also means that, despite the attraction between them, he must keep his distance from Sarah.

The plant Sarah calls keys of heaven may grow in impossible places, but it’s not that easy for people to find the place where they really belong. So it’s quite a temptation to take matters into her own hands …

This is the second edition. First published by Hachette FaithWords in 2015.

While a young Dokterfraa learns to heal the body, the Great Physician heals the heart ...

With Henry Byler now engaged to an Englisch woman, Sarah Yoder is doing her best to find peace, treating the members of her Old Order Amish community with all the skill an herbalist-in-training can muster. Since Henry never joined church, they could never have been anything but cordial neighbors, anyway. The solution is to keep busy. Her son Simon is back from the ranch in Colorado. Her sister-in-law Amanda needs a little help in the matchmaking department. And more and more members of the church are seeking her help.

When Henry comes to her for a cure to heal his sensitive hands before his success as a potter is jeopardized, Sarah must do all she can to stifle the longing in her heart. As his friend, she must also be painfully honest about this new plan of his—to be filmed for a reality show called Shunning Amish. Will the cost to the community be too high?

The Great Physician is able to heal any hurt—only He has the power to change an impossible situation and bring people back to Himself. But Sarah has to wonder whether it might already be too late, with Henry's wedding only weeks away…

This is the second edition. First published by Hachette FaithWords in 2015.

His first choice … her second chance.

Ten years ago, Anna Esch’s parents discouraged Mose King’s courtship. With four older brothers, he would never have a chance to work the family farm, and his job was not enough to support a wife. So he left Whinburg Township … and took Anna’s heart with him. Now Mose is back for a wedding and staying with his cousins, who have rented the farm from Anna’s father. The whole district is buzzing. Not about Anna and Mose—everyone’s forgotten they ever courted. But about Mose and Malinda Kanagy, who is everything Anna isn’t. Can Anna stand by and watch his family make the perfect match for the man she’s never been able to forget? Or will she realize in time that Christmas is the season for God’s gifts and second chances?

Simon Yoder is the Dokterfraa's son, but that doesn't mean he'll ever admit to needing a little spiritual healing himself. But God has a different plan for him ... and when he meets his match at his aendi Amanda's wedding, he'll soon be singing a different tune ...

When Amanda Yoder, Hannah Riehl, and their friends travel to Colorado for summer jobs at the Lost Creek Ranch, it soon becomes plain that God has more in store for them than making beds and wrangling horses.

"When I came to the end of the book, I was left craving more, and I am thankful that this is only the first book in the series!" --Christian Fiction Addiction

Emma Stolzfus has a hidden life--and it's not the writing she does late at night while everyone sleeps.

“Any book that can both entertain and leave me thinking is a book worth reading! Adina Senft is quickly becoming one of my favourite writers of Amish fiction.” —Christian Fiction Addiction

Is Carrie Miller's longing to be a mother tempting her away from her Amish beliefs?

“There is much to celebrate and much to learn from the Amish community, and these characters are so real to me now that I wish they lived next door!” —Christian Fiction Addiction

While a young Dokterfraa learns to heal the body, the Great Physician heals the heart ...

Sarah Yoder, an Amish widow in Pennsylvania’s Whinburg Township, is doing her best to provide a home where her family and members of her Old Order Amish church can find fellowship and friendship. But it’s getting more and more difficult to pay the bills—until the local Dokterfraa, or herbal healer, makes a startling suggestion: Could she begin training as a healer? Now Sarah stands where two ways meet. Caring for others could take her away from home. At the same time, she must be willing for the place where God wants her.

But when she does choose, her family seems to  splinter. Her stepson Simon wants to move out west to find work. Her youngest, Caleb, is spending too much time over at the tumbledown home of Henry Byler, who left the church long ago. Henry inherited the family farm and has returned—under protest—never suspecting that God has been waiting there for him all this time.

As Sarah compiles her cures, she waits for God to do his healing work. In a man who rues a harsh decision. In a lonely prodigal who has lost everything. And maybe even in a herbalist-in-training who firmly believes she will never love again …

This is the second edition. First published by Hachette FaithWords in 2014.