"When The Heart Cries"

 

by: Cindy Woodsmall

 

Meet new Amish author, Cindy Woodsmall, as she brings her first book about the "plain" people to life, in the tradition of Beverly Lewis. Woodsmall traces the life of seventeen year old Old Order Amish girl, Hannah Lapp, as she wrestles with the choice of leaving her bucolic farming community and renouncing the only life she has ever known.

Hannah has fallen in love with neighboring Mennonite, Paul Waddell, who has asked her to marry him. However, if she married Paul, she will be shunned by the Amish community and must sever her ties with her family.

On the evening of her engagement to Paul, tragedy strikes and in one unwelcomed encounter, all that Hannah has known and believed is forever altered. As she finds herself entangled in questions that the Old Ways of her people cannot answer, Hannah faces the possibility of losing her place in her family, in her community, and in the heart of the man she loves. Explore the tough choices that life sometimes deals us, and see how this young woman of faith meets the challenges.

You're sure to remember Hannah for a long, long time!

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