The Amish Teacher's Secret

Susanna Glick set the spoon down before her hands could shake.

The Beachy boy is back. Ten years after Daniel disappeared before dawn and broke her heart without a word, he has come home to Alder Run to tend his ailing father, and the whole district is watching to see what the schoolteacher will do.

Susanna has built a careful life out of the wreckage he left. She teaches the settlement's children. She nurses her invalid mother. Every March she pretends an ordinary day is ordinary. And she has told herself, for ten long years, that she has forgotten the boy who went over the fence and never looked back.

Then he begins rebuilding the schoolhouse porch three feet from her door, and the wall she built around her heart starts to give.

A good man has asked for her hand. Her mother is waiting for an answer. The bishop is watching, the district is talking, and a storm is coming that will break far more than a bridge. Susanna must choose between the safe life she has earned and the reckless heart she cannot govern.

Some loves wait ten years for their answer. Will she be brave enough to give it?