Lancaster County Secrets Books in Order
Part ofSuzanne Woods Fisher Books in OrderExplore the Lancaster County Secrets books by Suzanne Woods Fisher in order, with short summaries, series notes, and help choosing where to start.
Last updated: June 11, 2026
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Publication Order
4 books
The Choice
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
2010
Carrie Weaver is ready to leave her Amish community behind, until heartbreak changes everything in a single moment. Forced to choose a new path, she discovers that one decision can reshape far more than her own future.
The Search
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
2010
A long-buried decision pulls Lainey O'Toole back to Stoney Ridge just as Bess Riehl is facing her own summer of change at Rose Hill Farm. Their lives collide in a story about hidden history, forgiveness, and hard truths.
The Waiting
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
2010
Jorie King has spent years waiting for Benjamin Zook, only to hear he has been killed. As comfort from his brother Caleb turns into love, another stunning twist leaves Jorie unsure what kind of future is still possible.
A Lancaster County Christmas
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
2011
A winter storm throws an unhappy modern couple into the home of Sol and Mattie Riehl for Christmas. As two marriages strain under very different burdens, the holiday becomes a chance for honesty, healing, and grace.
Series background & context
The Lancaster County Secrets books are some of Suzanne Woods Fisher's best-known Amish novels, and they show why readers keep coming back to Stoney Ridge and Lancaster County. These stories are built around family ties, old decisions, and the way one hidden truth can ripple through an entire community.
The books do not stick to just one heroine. Instead, they move through a linked circle of young women and families, including Carrie Weaver, Jorie King, Bess Riehl, and Lainey O'Toole. That wider view gives the series its pull. You are not only following one romance. You are watching a whole town live with the consequences of love, grief, loyalty, and secrets that surface at the worst possible moment.
Rose Hill Farm matters here, too.
Fisher uses the Amish setting in a grounded way. The plain routines of work, church, and family life are always present, but so are the emotional complications underneath them. Engagements falter. Old choices come due. People who think they know their story learn they only know part of it. The tension is not loud or flashy, but it is steady, and it carries across the trilogy from The Choice to The Waiting to The Search.
There is also a holiday companion, A Lancaster County Christmas, which steps back into the same world with a winter setting and a gentler, more self-contained story. It is connected to the larger series, but the core arc still belongs to the first three novels.
If you like Amish fiction with strong community ties, layered family histories, and a little more emotional mystery than usual, this series is a good place to start with Fisher. Begin with The Choice and read in order. The books build on one another, and the payoffs land better when you let the buried history unfold one step at a time.
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