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I was dis­ap­pointed at the end of that book because I thought that Miriam chose the wrong man for the wrong rea­sons. Miriam’s story, Miriam’s Heart, also dealt with pos­si­ble con­ver­sion issues as Miriam has to make a choice between a Men­non­ite and an Amish farmer.

We got to see a lit­tle bit of Rebecca, too, and I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing her story soon as the Hannah’s Daugh­ters series con­tin­ues. It was also nice to see brief appear­ances from her sis­ters Ruth, Miriam, Anna, Johanna, and of course Susanna. Per­haps that is typ­i­cal of Amish court­ing, though - I cer­tainly wouldn’t know. Their romance is sweet and believ­able - although I think most of the romances in this series are far to short to make the kind of life­long com­mit­ments the girls make. That’s the choice that Leah Yoder has to make when she meets Daniel Brown. So then what hap­pens when one of the girls on said Amish farm thinks about con­vert­ing to the Men­non­ite faith and mov­ing across the world to be with a Men­non­ite missionary? But some­how, Emma Miller con­vinces me, tem­porar­ily, that I want to go live on an Amish farm. Then I remem­ber that a) I’m an athe­ist, b) I’m a tech­nol­ogy junkie, and…yeah. Especially near the end of the book, her people tend to lapse into jarringly modern lingo such as “role model,” and the author sometimes spells out the psychology behind her characters’ actions more than seems necessary, but these are minor flaws in an enjoyable and moving novel.Some­times I just want to aban­don every­thing and move to an Amish farm in the mid­dle of nowhere.

MacLaren writes in a lively, engaging style, with a welcome dash of humor, and her characters have depth and heart. Jon decides to redeem what appears to be the hopeless case of Ezra, Soon, he sets his sights on the soul-and the heart-of the prickly Emma. When Jon does Emma the favor of hauling Ezra off her premises, though, she relents.

Emma’s childhood has left her without much use for religion, so when Jonathan Atkins, who attended the same one-room schoolhouse as Emma, returns to Little Hickman as the town’s new preacher, Emma is reluctant to rent him a room. Emma Browning, who runs a boarding house in 1896 Little Hickman, Kentucky, can fend for herself, having grown up as the motherless daughter of Ezra, the longtime town drunk.