When Solly and Rachel Slabaugh, along with Solly's brother Abel, are found dead in a hog pit, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the gruesome scene. Once again teaming up with Agent John Tomasetti, Kate reveals that the death may not have been accidental, but one of the most horrific hate crimes ever to befall the Amish community of Painter's Creek.

"Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time--and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave. On a late-night shift, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called to the scene of an apparent suicide--an old man found hanging from the rafters in his dilapidated barn. But evidence quickly points to murder and...

"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder's past comes back to haunt her when she receives a call from Amish widower Adam Lengacher. While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, he discovered a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. Kate arrives at his farm and is shocked to discover the driver is a woman she hasn't seen in ten years: fellow cop Gina Colorosa. Ten years ago, Kate and Gina were best friends at the police academy, graduating...

When her best friend's husband and two children are killed in a suspicious car accident, Amish community member Kate Burkholder maintains a vigil by a grievously injured survivor who may hold answers before investigating a brutal killer who makes her question everything about her Amish culture.

Widower Luke Brand is a leader in the peaceful Amish community of Maplecreek, Ohio. But now his people are under attack - and the main target appears to be the children. Policewoman Kat Lindley is running from the big-city job that nearly got her killed, and memories of the abused boy she failed to save. Now she agrees to undertake a dangerous masquerade within the Amish community, desperate to help Luke save Maplecreek's children.

"When Amish wife Moriah Byler is abandoned by her husband, she fears that she'll never find a man of his word. What Moriah doesn't know is that Levi's twin, Gabriel, has loved her for years. Moriah must learn to accept his love so that she can be made whole again"--Regular print ed.

Rebecca Keim returns to Wheat Ridge full of resolve to make her relationship with John Miller work. But in her absence, John has become suspicious of the woman he loves. Before their conflict can be resolved, John is badly injured and Rebecca is sent back to Milroy to aid her seriously ill Aunt Leona. In Milroy, Rebecca revisits the old covered bridge over the Flatrock River - and memories of her promise made so long ago. Where will she find happiness?...

A fatal accident involving a semi and an Amish buggy starts Professor Michael to search for a connection to a string of other cirmes.

"As he goes about his milking chores on a cold October morning, Bishop Leon Shetler daydreams of escaping the Ohio winter and taking a bus to the Pinecraft Amish community in Florida for a vacation in the sun. But his reverie is interrupted when young Crist Burkholder enters the barn, head down, hat in hand, to make a confession: 'I just killed Glenn Spiegle.' 'An Amish murder?' Sheriff Robertson muses. 'Who'd believe that?' But Burkholder stands...