Emma Miller

"Although she left her Old Order Amish ways in her youth, Rachel discovered corporate life in the English world to be complicated and unfulfilling. Having returned to Stone Mill, she's happy to be running her own B&B. But she's also learning--in more ways than one--that the past is not always so easily left behind. After local newspaperman Bill Billingsly is found gagged and tied to his front porch, left to freeze overnight in a snowstorm, Detective...

When the Amish residents of Stone Mill, Pennsylvania, refuse to discuss with the police the murder of a young woman who had left the community, it's up to Rachel Mast, who also gave up the Plain life and then returned to run a bed and breakfast, to bridge the cultural gap and stop a killer from striking again.

"Inn owner Rachel Mast is no longer a devout member of the Amish community of Stone Mill, Pennsylvania, but she still cares deeply for them. So she's staying at her family's farm to help her mother through an illness--and at the same time, trying to track down two missing people"--

During the Christmas season, Rebecca Yoder agrees to help new preacher Caleb Wittner with his mischievous daughter, who has turned the community of Seven Poplars upside down. Only Rebecca can see the pain hidden beneath Amelia's antics -- and her father's brusque manner. After losing his wife in a fire, Caleb's physical scars may be healing, but his emotions have not. Yet Rebecca's sweet manner soon has him smiling and laughing with his daughter --...

The sweetest courtship: "At age thirty-six, Jacob Beechy is a rarity--a master candy maker, and a bachelor. His mother, however, still hopes for grandchildren. With Valentine's Day around the corner, she convinces Jacob he will need extra help in the shop and interviews a string of applicants--for his future wife..."--FantasticFiction.com. The sweetest truth: "Sadie Fischer has accepted that she will never marry. Her scars from a barn fire are a...