Ariana’s comfortable Old Order Amish world is about to unravel. Will
holding tightly to the cords of family keep them together—or simply tear them
apart?
Twenty-year-old Ariana Brenneman loves her family and the Old Ways. She has two
aspirations: open a café in historic Summer Grove to help support her family’s
ever-expanding brood and to keep any other Amish from being lured into the Englisch
life by Quill Schlabach.
Five years ago Quill, along with her dear friend Frieda, ran off together, and
Ariana still carries the wounds of that betrayal. When she unexpectedly encounters
him, she soon realizes he has plans to help someone else she loves leave the Amish.
Despite how things look, Quill’s goal has always been to protect Ariana from
anything that may hurt her, including the reasons he left. After returning to
Summer Grove on another matter, he unearths secrets about Ariana and her family
that she is unaware of. His love and loyalty to her beckons him to try to win her
trust and help her find a way to buy the café—because when she learns the truth
that connects her and a stranger named Skylar Nash, Quill knows it may upend her
life forever.
Ties That Bind is the first novel in the Amish of Summer Grove series.