Linda Byler Books in Order

Introducing Lizzie Glick as a child, this book shows her tumbling through farm chores, school days, and mischief with more enthusiasm than caution. Her sharp tongue and quick laugh set her apart, hinting at the honest, searching woman she will later become.

This early story about Lizzie and her older sister Emma highlights how different personalities clash and complement each other in a crowded Amish family. When money troubles and neighborhood sorrows arise, the sisters slowly learn that their bond is stronger than their rivalry.

Sisters Lizzie and Mandy swing between fierce loyalty and sharp quarrels as they grow up sharing chores, secrets, and dreams. When family changes and community hardships hit, the girls must learn what it means to stand together even when they do not see life the same way.

Set during Lizzie’s girlhood before adult worries fully arrive, this book captures buggy rides, chores, schoolroom pranks, and first crushes. Even in these lighter years, Lizzie feels the tug between obedience and independence that will shape her later choices.

Entering her teens, Lizzie faces stricter rules, more responsibility, and the thrilling freedom of youth gatherings. New friendships, painful mistakes, and deeper questions about faith mark these years as stepping stones toward the bigger decisions that await her as a young woman.

Focusing on the courtship between Lizzie and Stephen, this story traces their journey from awkward friendship to deep commitment. Misunderstandings, community opinions, and Lizzie’s own fiery nature threaten to derail the match until both learn more honest ways to listen, speak, and trust.

Marriage brings Lizzie new joys, steady work, and a different set of expectations from both family and church. Learning to share a home, a budget, and decisions with Stephen tests her patience and humor as she discovers that love is often built in small, ordinary days.

Lizzie Glick would rather race horses than rock babies, and her temper flares faster than her prayers. As she “runs around” with friends and suitors, she struggles to see whether there is a place for a strong willed girl like her inside her Amish community.

Having finally become a schoolteacher, Lizzie revels in her independence and her cheerful classroom of Amish children. At home, though, her father’s poor health and her sisters’ engagements highlight her own uncertainty about Stephen, her future, and what she must sacrifice to follow her calling.

Lizzie Glick feels as though every worry and question she has carried is converging at once. Should she keep teaching, join the church, marry Stephen, or choose an entirely different path? Surrounded by well meaning advice, she learns that some choices no one else can make for her.

This companion to the Lizzie stories collects favorite Amish recipes from Lizzie’s world, from hearty main dishes and baked goods to everyday desserts. Short notes and anecdotes bring the Glick kitchen to life as readers learn how simple ingredients become comfort food for a bustling farm family.

After moving from Ohio to a small Montana Amish settlement, Sadie Miller works at Aspen East Ranch amid stunning scenery and unpredictable guests. Courted by solid Ezra yet fascinated by English horseman Mark, she faces family turmoil, dangerous wild horse accidents, and the ache of not knowing where she fits.

In the second Sadie’s Montana story, someone is shooting horses near Aspen East Ranch, terrifying both cowboys and Amish families. Sadie’s heart remains tangled over English ranch hand Mark even as a thoughtful visitor from Lancaster appears, forcing her to face both danger on the range and secrets at home.

Isaac thinks his shy older brother Simon would be perfect for the pretty Amish schoolteacher, but Simon is too tongue tied to act. Determined to give his brother the best Christmas present ever, Isaac hatches a series of schemes that tangle school programs, family gatherings, and unexpected feelings.

Now married to Mark and living on the ranch, Sadie is visited by FBI agents asking about two mysterious children who once appeared there and vanished. As threats swirl around her prized horse and Mark’s moods darken, Sadie’s own disappearance tests the strength of family, faith, and courage.

Still reeling from a devastating barn fire, minister Davey Beiler tries to lead his Amish community while his daughter Sarah struggles to rebuild her life after a serious accident. As scars, doubts, and suspicions deepen, both father and daughter must confront what forgiveness and courage look like in practice.

After her family’s barn burns in a suspicious nighttime fire, Sarah Beiler watches fear sweep through her Lancaster County Amish district. As more barns go up in flames and talk of police protection grows, she navigates parental expectations, a flirtatious boyfriend, and a newcomer who might see her more clearly.

When her husband dies in a barn raising accident, Ruth Miller is left to raise six children alone in their Amish community. As Christmas nears and bills pile up, unexpected help arrives in the form of neighbors, a persistent bachelor, and a mysterious visitor who may change everything.

As an infant, Hester was left by a spring and adopted by Amish couple Hans and Kate Zug, growing into a beloved but conspicuously different daughter. When an encounter with a Lenape healer awakens her awareness of another heritage, tensions at home push Hester toward a risky flight from all she has known.

Mary faces a Christmas full of painful farewells as circumstances force her to leave the Amish community and people she loves. Packing memories along with her few belongings, she must trust that God can meet her in a new place even when her heart still clings to the old.

In the final Lancaster Burning book, barn fires still terrorize the Amish community and pressure mounts to testify against the suspected arsonist. After Sarah Beiler is badly burned rescuing horses, her father Davey wrestles with guilt, leadership, and how to balance forgiveness with a duty to protect his people.

Strong willed Becky is sure she knows exactly what kind of husband she wants and is quick to dismiss quiet, serious men. When circumstances push her into working closely with someone she once overlooked, she has to admit that God’s idea of a perfect match may surprise her.

Growing older, Hester feels the strain of being both Amish and Native in a world that mistrusts both difference and independence. As her gift for healing grows and tensions in colonial Pennsylvania sharpen, she learns to speak up for herself and for those who live between cultures.

A young Amish woman finds her loyalties pulled between family expectations, deepening feelings for someone who does not quite fit her community, and opportunities that would take her far from home. As doors open and close, she must decide which path truly leads her toward peace.

Lonely and often overlooked, Henry has longed for both a family and a dog of his own. One winter, an unexpected chain of events brings him a loyal canine companion and opens the door to a hard earned love that might finally give him the home he has dreamed of.

In this concluding story of Hester’s journey, the Native American girl raised by an Amish family must finally choose where and with whom she will build her life. Torn between Amish faith and Lenape heritage, she searches for a place where she is no longer a stranger to herself.

Now settled on their North Dakota homestead, Hannah’s family finally sees their cattle business grow as other Amish families join them. A severe drought, a windmill fire, and tangled feelings for both Clay Jenkins and steady Jerry Riehl push Hannah to reconsider whom she can trust and where she belongs.

During the Great Depression, Hannah’s father loads the family wagon and heads west from Lancaster to homestead in North Dakota, dreaming of a better life. Instead they face drought, blizzards, empty cupboards, and near starvation until Hannah takes bold steps to help them survive.

Young Elsie longs for a horse of her own more than anything, but her Amish family has little money and many worries. When an unexpected opportunity finally brings a horse into her life, Elsie must learn responsibility, patience, and how love can arrive in very ordinary ways.

In the final Dakota novel, Hannah and her husband lead a fragile Amish homesteading community on the North Dakota plains. Repeated losses and harsh weather force them to ask where home truly is and what it means to belong when every choice seems to cost something important.

Five year old Lizzie in Lancaster County is spunky, sensitive, and often in trouble for daydreaming instead of behaving like her saintly sister Emma. As her family faces a possible move and a frightening buggy accident, Lizzie begins to wonder who she is meant to be.

Teenage John, the youngest of seven Amish brothers, is sidelined by mysterious exhaustion and pain that turns out to be Lyme disease. As his illness stretches on, family tensions flare and jealousy over his brother’s courtship grows, even while John slowly discovers inner strength and a surprising chance at love.

Edna Miller has spent years loving shy Emery from afar, turning down other suitors while she waits. When he finally notices her and she also grows close to Orva, a widower she works for, Edna must trust God as she chooses between long held dreams and unexpected affection.

After her husband dies and a fire destroys their barn, Amish widow Annie faces winter with eight children and mounting bills. A friendship with a widower who has six children of his own brings laughter, chaos, and the possibility that two hurting families might become one.

Best friends since childhood, David Stolzfus and Anna Fisher grow into first love on neighboring Lancaster County farms. When David’s hunger for freedom sends him overseas and another young man writes to Anna, both must untangle loyalty, desire, and faith before they can see what their future should be.

As Christmas approaches, Liz helps with a holiday program while quietly remembering the heartbreak of a broken engagement. Working at the market and spending time with a steady widower, she slowly learns that saying yes to new joy does not erase old sorrow but can soften its edges.

Emma leaves her Amish community to nanny for an English family on the North Carolina coast, where ocean breezes and a charming Amish contractor upend her careful plans. When distance, silence, and a new friendship with a former Amish man complicate everything, she must decide what kind of life she truly wants.

Years after her fiancé called off their wedding weeks before the big day, Liz has settled into life as a single woman working at an Amish market restaurant. When her kind but reserved boss begins to notice her in new ways at Christmastime, she has to risk her heart again.

Oba and May are orphaned Amish siblings sent by train to their aunt and uncle’s Arkansas cotton farm, where cruelty soon replaces promised care. As May shoulders growing responsibility and discovers a forbidden friendship with Clinton, she must decide how far obedience can stretch before she seeks escape.

Now married with children, May is surrounded by blessings yet still haunted by the past and by her brother Oba’s anger. As her grown children face their own romantic struggles, the family must confront buried wounds and learn what grace looks like over a lifetime.

This cookbook gathers 75 authentic Amish recipes for soups, stews, casseroles, and breads collected from real Pennsylvania kitchens. Simple ingredients and clear instructions invite home cooks to recreate comforting dishes that often anchor church suppers, family gatherings, and everyday meals in Amish country.

In the second Long Road Home novel, May returns to the Amish community of her childhood carrying deep secrets from the South. Taken in by kindhearted Clara, she battles depression, wrestles with shame, and begins to believe that healing and love might still be possible.

In colonial Pennsylvania, Paula has lost three children and then her husband, confirming a lifelong fear that she is somehow cursed. When her younger daughter grows dangerously ill, a desperate journey through winter snow leads her to an unexpected companion and a fragile new hope.

Ten year old twins Annie and Fannie are the youngest of twelve Amish children and often feel overlooked in the noisy household. While practicing for their school’s Christmas play, they scheme and dream about one big wish, discovering along the way how love shows up in ordinary family chaos.

Back in Lancaster, Susan begins courting Levi Yoder while juggling housecleaning work, market days, and her sister Kate’s troubled marriage. News of a missing child she once nannied in Wyoming pulls her heart in two directions, forcing her to weigh security against a call to help.

Susan Lapp enjoys the independence of working two jobs in Lancaster and has no interest in marriage after watching her sisters struggle. When matchmaking friends and a nanny job far from home push her into unfamiliar territory, she must decide whether staying safely single is really what she wants.

Now in Wyoming, Susan is married to logger Isaac and stepmother to his son Titus, who resents her presence. Dusty roads, long workdays, and simmering grief test this blended Amish family as they slowly learn whether love, patience, and faith can turn heaviness into praise.

In 1823 along Pennsylvania’s Juniata River, fourteen year old Henry shoulders adult responsibilities as his alcoholic father drinks away what little they have. As winter deepens and his exhausted mother falters, Henry learns that honoring Christmas has more to do with sacrifice and courage than with celebration.

With red hair, sharp questions, and little interest in local suitors, Mary feels out of place in her strict Amish community in western New York. When an aunt invites her to Lancaster to help run a bakery, Mary must choose between obedience to her parents and the future she longs for.

Running her own bakery in Lancaster keeps Mary busy, yet anxiety and loneliness still stalk her. News of her father’s accident pulls her back to rural New York, where caring for a stern, wounded parent forces her to revisit old fears and ask what kind of home she truly wants.

In a Wisconsin Amish community, middle aged schoolteacher Lydia Beiler pours herself into her students, especially troublesome Jesse Stoltzfus. When a snowstorm traps her at school and Jesse helps her reach his warm, bustling home, Lydia and his older sisters each find their own unexpected chances at love.

In the final Stepping Stones novel, Mary enters marriage and motherhood still unsure how to hear God’s voice apart from her father’s. As she raises her daughter, she struggles to break old patterns, finding new ways to love, discipline, and trust that do not repeat past hurts.

Amos Beiler grows up feeling like a failure in his Amish community, slow in school and mocked for his weight and acne. Leaving home to work for an English couple, he gains confidence and new freedoms, then finds his heart caught between lively Skye and sweet Amish Anna.

As Amos settles into his English life, the Beiler family back home strains under anxiety, control, and unspoken pain. Caught between possible futures with Anna or others and the heavy expectations of his past, Amos must decide what kind of man he wants to be and where he belongs.