Returning readers of ‘Home to Hickory Hollow’ to the idyllic Lancaster County in the Amish Country of Pennsylvania state, Beverley Lewis continues the saga with new characters, new drama, new intrigue and warm new romance.

Mayanna knows what it is to trust in God. Caring for her parents and now raising her children alone after the farming accident that took away her husband, she has neither the time nor reason to search for love.

Then on a long night’s journey, with her children sleepily enduring the bumpy buggy ride home a mother’s worst night mare is realised. On arriving home, Mayanna finds that youngest daughter, Sarah, is missing – fallen from the buggy somewhere on the road and nowhere to be found. Hope, faith and prayer are again her only refuge.

Heartbroken teacher, Jodi Winfield, has come to Lancaster to house-sit. The last thing she expects to find is a dishevelled little girl alone on the side of the road. Yet there have been no reports of a missing child, and, being from the German speaking Amish community, the girl herself cannot speak English. This is a child from nowhere.

Then Jodi knows she must set about finding the girl’s family and returning her home, yet she is becoming increasingly attached to the mysterious girl and is no closer to learning her identity. Then an unexpected opportunity brings Jodi to Hickory Hollow and the secretive world of the Lancaster Old Order Amish.