The Forbidden Amish Heart

She stayed, and lost her voice. He left, and found his.

Delilah King has never been anywhere. At twenty-six she is unwed, dutiful, and quietly promised to a good man with three motherless children and a farm paid clear. Her mother has already named the date.

Isaac Fisher was Old Order once, two counties over. He asked one question too many and his church buried him alive. Now he works the corridors of an English hospital, helping Plain families who will take his hands and his help and never once his heart.

When Delilah is sent to the city as an interpreter for the bishop's family, she finds the one man alive who lives where she lives. He does not mistake her stillness for having nothing to say. He knows the exact weight of a word swallowed.

There is no road that ends well. She cannot leave her world without unraveling. He cannot enter it while the Bann has his name in its mouth. He steps back, because loving her honorably means letting her keep everything she has.

And then a frightened boy asks Delilah to speak, and everything she has is exactly what it will cost.