"A long-lost painting.. a journal with a secret code... a father's mysterious return...
Mennonite raised Ella Bayer has two big dreams: to operate her own bakery and to marry her AMish boyfriend, Ezra Gundy. Ezra adores Ella as well, but his family wants him to marry within the faith.
Hoping some distance will coo the romance, Ezra's family sends him to work on an Amish dairy farm in Indiana. But when Ella's estranged father returns to Lancaster, she also heads to Indiana - and ends up at a farm linked to her great-grandmother's coded journal. There, her attempts to break that code are aided by Luke Kline, a handsome Amish farmhand.
As Ella makes her way in this new place, she's forced to grapple with the past and question the future. Will she become Ezra's Amish bride? Or does God have something else in mind for the proud an feisty young woman who is used to doing things her own way?"
--from back cover.