First published 2013
Bill walks away from his family's prestigious New York law firm to pursue his calling as a minister in rural Wyoming. His wife Jenny, a fashion stylist, sacrifices her career and city life to follow him. Thirty-eight years later, Robert runs a struggling Manhattan publishing house, searching desperately for a breakthrough novel. That novel arrives from Lillibet, a young Amish woman who writes by candlelight after caring for her widowed father and three brothers on their Pennsylvania farm. She wraps her manuscript in a hand-stitched apron and sends it to Robert, who falls in love with both the book and its mysterious author. Lillibet faces exile from her community if she pursues publication, yet she feels drawn to Robert and the world beyond her horse-and-buggy existence. The two couples' stories interweave across four decades, exploring whether true love transcends death and whether destiny guides lovers back to each other across time.
Genres: literary-fiction, historical-fiction, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water, second-chance
Setting: New York, Pennsylvania, Wyoming
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
323 pages · Hardcover · Delacorte Press