During the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Amish girl Hannah and her family move from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to a homestead in North Dakota, hoping to make a fresh start, but face harsh realities and nearly starve until Hannah takes matters into her own hands, going into town to look for a job, leaving her little time to contemplate her feelings for her neighbor.

Hannah has put everything into building up her family?s homestead in North Dakota. Despite tragedy and almost unimaginable hardship, she and her new husband Jerry are leading their Amish friends and family in their homesteading venture. When the winter storms and the untimely death of a child become too much for the rest of the community to bear, they move back east. But Hannah and Jerry stay on. But even Jerry?s spirits begin to fail and when a flag...

Who is responsible for setting the barn fires that continue to keep the Amish of eastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on edge? Who is responsible for seeing that they are stopped? Some of the younger members of the church are ready to testify against the man who has allegedly started at least several of the fires. Davey Beiler, the leader of the Amish district, counsels patience and forgiveness. But when Sarah, Davey's daughter, spots flames in...