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Rose Kauffman is engaged to Silas Good, a well-liked Amish fellow, so why does she still pine for Nick Franco, the former foster son of the bishop? Especially now that Nick has left the Amish community under a cloud of suspicion after the death of the bishop's biological son? Will Rose marry Silas, even while struggling with romantic feelings for Nick?Meanwhile, Rose's older sister, Hen, has returned to live at her parents' farm with her young daughter....

My boots crunched into the frosty snow as I remembered the many wintry adventures Nick and I enjoyed, growing up here on these heavenly acres. All those years together, we were each other's closest friend. And I admit to having wondered why my father, or whoever found the money tin buried down in the ravine, hasn't mentioned the letter I wrote . . . the one that revealed my feelings for our former bishop's son. Even if Dat wasn't the one who removed...

Miriam Zehr has worked at the Sugarcreek Inn longer than she cares to admit. The restaurant is a favorite of town residents as well as the many tourists who come to taste the famous Amish fare. Though she always tries to have a smile for every customer, deep down Miriam knows something's missing: a family of her own. When Junior, the man she's pined for all her life, suddenly seeks her out, she's thrilled to be noticed--until she realizes he's only...

When eligible bachelor Cornelious Weaver suffers a heart attack while in bed with another woman just days before his wedding to Priscilla Livengood, and it is revealed that there may have been foul play, Madgalena Yoder must uncover the truth.

When Colonel George Custard, the hotel tycoon who had selected her hometown of Hernia, Pennsylvania, as the site for his new five-star hotel, turns up dead, innkeeper and amateur sleuth Magdalena Yoder searces for a killer.

"Magdalena Yoder is accused of murdering her ex-husband in this delightfully quirky cozy mystery set among Pennsylvania's Amish-Mennonite community. "You're going to be sorry, Aaron Paul Miller. Before I'm through with you, you're going to wish that you were dead." Shockwaves are running through the small town of Hernia with the news that an enormous, biblical-themed amusement park is to be built on its doorstep, destroying the community's peaceful...

Lukas Yoder, a novelist who has had a long and successful literary career, has written what he believes is his final book. When a mysterious, violent tragedy strikes his community, Yoder receives help from a devoted reader to solve the problem.

Magdalena Yoder ends up in the middle of a baffling mystery when Clarence Webber, an imprisoned con man, succumbs after sampling a bowl of gruel laced with arsenic, and she sets out to find the killer who poisoned the porridge.

"The annual Billy Goat Gruff Festival is the undisputed highlight of Hernia's social calendar. But when Magdalena Yoder, village mayor and owner of the PennDutch Inn, had the brainwave four years ago, little did she realize that it would soon attract visitors from far and wide-even Australia, as the unexpected arrival of Gabe's long-lost cousin, Miriam, at the inn confirms. Unfortunately, the shock of Miriam's one-legged appearance is soon usurped...