Cindy Woodsmall Books in Order

Seventeen-year-old Hannah Lapp secretly loves Mennonite Paul Waddell, even though their future would cost her place in her Amish community. Then a brutal tragedy and cruel judgment shatter everything she thought she knew about family, faith, and love.

Hannah flees Owl’s Perch for Ohio and tries to build a new life while hiding who she is. As she learns the Englischer world, she must decide whether safety and freedom matter more than the home she left behind.

After building a fragile new life outside Amish country, Hannah returns home when her sister needs her. Old lies surface, old wounds reopen, and she must choose between the life she rebuilt and the love she thought she had lost.

Widowed Cara Moore and her daughter flee New York after a stalker turns dangerous and land in Amish country. In Dry Lake, family secrets and Ephraim Mast’s risky kindness complicate Cara’s search for safety and a fresh start.

Beth Hertzler still wears mourning black for the fiancé she lost and keeps her heart firmly closed. A gifted woodcarver named Jonah, and Beth’s determined Aunt Lizzy, just might give her a second chance at joy.

Schoolteacher Lena Kauffman faces open defiance from a boy in her Amish classroom, and the trouble refuses to stay at school. As tensions spread through Dry Lake, Lena and those around her must work through grief, fear, and old pain.

Cindy Woodsmall and Amish friend Miriam Flaud share stories, faith, humor, and hard-earned lessons from very different lives. Part memoir and part conversation, it offers a warm, personal look at friendship, family, and Amish traditions.

Mattie Eash leaves Apple Ridge after Gideon Beiler abruptly ends their engagement on Christmas Eve. When she returns years later with a new life and new beau, old hurt and long-hidden truth still wait at home.

Sylvia Fisher escapes a dangerous tie to an old beau and starts over on a struggling farm. Aaron Blank returns from rehab planning to sell that same farm, but Sylvia’s grit and his family’s hopes force both toward grace and hard choices.

Rhoda Byler’s unusual intuition and gift with herbs have made her an outsider in her Amish community. When the struggling King family crosses her path, business, love, and long-buried guilt begin pulling her out from behind her garden walls.

Old Order Mennonite Annie Martin retreats to her grandfather’s home in Apple Ridge after clashing with her mother. There she falls for Amish Aden Zook, and both must face how sharply their communities draw the line.

In Maine, Rhoda throws herself into the orchard and the settlement she helped build. Trouble in love and an old secret among nearby Englisch neighbors test whether her insight can guide her, or only make everything messier.

Sadie Yoder returns home after years away and wants to keep family pressure at a distance. Levi agrees to a practical plan, but their arrangement starts to break down as trust, attraction, and old assumptions get in the way.

After a tornado devastates the orchard, Rhoda, Jacob, and Samuel head to Maine to help build a new Amish settlement. Fresh land brings hope, but secrets, old debts, and community suspicion travel with them.

Jolene Keim gave up her own future to hold her shattered family together after tragedy. Ten years later, friendship with abandoned husband Andy Fisher forces her to face buried grief, impossible boundaries, and what grace might still allow.

Rhoda finally feels steadier in Orchard Bend, until Leah King’s forbidden relationship and a sudden tragedy shake the whole settlement. As old hurts return, the community must decide whether its shared dream can survive another blow.

Ariana Brenneman wants to stay Amish, open a café, and forget Quill Schlabach, the boy who left with her best friend. Then Quill returns with dangerous secrets that connect Ariana to a stranger and threaten everything she thought she knew.

Ariana learns she was switched at birth and is thrust into her Englisch family’s world, while Skylar Nash is sent to live with the Brennemans. Both young women feel uprooted, and Quill may be the only one who sees how broken the threads really are.

Rose Kurtz agrees to marry Joel Dienner and help raise his children after tragedy leaves his household in need. In the hills of West Virginia, a marriage of necessity slowly opens into belonging, tenderness, and the risk of heartbreak.

Back in her Amish home, Ariana is no longer the obedient daughter her family expects. As Skylar fights for sobriety and Ariana questions old certainties, both women must decide what truly binds a family and community together.

A troubled foster teen faces a life-altering crisis just after Christmas, and the choices that follow echo for years. Set around Asheville, this standalone leans into young love, broken trust, and the long shadow of the past.

After an unthinkable loss and a head injury, Tara Abbott heads to St. Simons Island searching for answers about her past. Surrounded by the Glynn Girls and a steady firefighter, she must piece together an identity that feels shattered.

Holly Zook works at a small-town pharmacy because she wants better care for her Amish neighbors, even if it costs her a normal Amish future. A holiday mystery and Joshua Smucker’s steady presence make that choice much harder.

Party planner Ivy Zook dreams of leaving Amish life to grow her business, but family obligations keep her close. When an ultra-conservative Amish man and his sick sister crash into town, Ivy’s plans, and maybe her heart, change course.

Jemima learns that the savings she guarded for her dream are gone, and that her husband Roy has been hiding a child with another woman. Their marriage breaks open under the weight of betrayal, forgiveness, and a child caught in the middle.

On her wedding day, Eliza receives a quilt and a strange promise that one choice in the past can be changed. Years later, grief drives her to use it, only to discover how many lives her sacrifice will rewrite.

In 1985, Amish carpenter Vin Lantz disappears after an argument over his forbidden portrait sketches. He wakes in 1822 Ohio, and while Celeste struggles at home, both fight time, faith, and longing to find each other again.