Where Grace Abides — B.J. Hoff

RACHEL BRENNEMAN HAS A PROBLEM...

Rachel loves the people of her Riverhaven Amish community, who want nothing more than to be left alone to live out their gentle, unassuming lives of faith. But Rachel also deeply loves the "outsider," Jeremiah Gant, an Irish-American conductor for the Underground Railroad. With the sincere hope of marrying Rachel, Jeremiah asks the bishop for permission to join the Amish community. When an unexpectedly negative decision is rendered, delivering a heartbreaking blow to them, they try to move on with their separate lives.

Meanwhile something sinister -- and deadly -- threatens the community's peace. At the lone sound of a midnight bell, the Plain People rally. What they must do, they will do together.

While Rachel's life is here with her people and Jeremiah lives as an outsider, their future seems hopeless. And yet their love story is tender and endearing -- a bold, inspiring journey of faith.