The bishop's daughter, Emily Ebersol, longing to marry a faithful Amish man and live out her days within the community, finds herself torn between two very different men--Luke Lambright, her childhood sweetheart who has returned to Wells Landing, and Elam Rhiel, a loyal, steady man.

Everyone in Wells Landing has long expected Sadie Kauffman and Chris Flaud to marry-despite Sadie's telling them differently. While she loves Chris, it is more as a friend than a husband. Yet at twenty-two, the plainest girl in her group, Sadie is also the only one who is still single. Perhaps it's time to be practical and marry Chris-though he still has not asked. But when Sadie meets a kind, handsome Mennonite, it seems her prayers have been answered......