Linda Hilty is deeply troubled. Her parents want to move to the nearest city, Morrington, and even more shocking, they want to leave the Amish faith. Linda's younger sisters don't want to go. Neither does she-there is the possibility of courtship with the handsome woodworker, Thomas Schwartz. How can Linda leave her community and the man who makes her heart beat so fast?But Linda is tempted away by the promise of further schooling, and she accompanies her family to Morrington to start her life as an Englischer. She begins her studies at the local community college, but it is a strange and bewildering new world. She can freely study, something she has always longed to do-but Thomas wants her to back in Baker's Corner. And now, a handsome Englischer has asked her out.Can Linda truly embrace her new life and forget her old? Will Thomas ever understand her choices? Ultimately, a crisis presses the issue. Must Linda now give up everything she holds dear?
