Jill Shellabarger

After a serious van accident leaves Amish school-teacher Jolene Yoder profoundly deaf, she leaves home to learn how to read lips and communicate with sign language. But two years later, a family with children who have been deaf since birth moves to Jolenes hometown, and she is asked to return as their teacher. Lonnie Hershberger has lost faith in God and in women ever since his girlfriend broke up with him when he lost his hearing during an explosion....

Hannah Lapp is shunned from her Amish community and starts her life over with her aunt, struggling to fit into the strange world of the Englischers while the family she left behind tries to come to terms with what happened and search for God's forgiveness for their role in Hannah's shunning.

Traumatized after surviving an automobile accident in which her boyfriend was killed, Katie Miller struggles to find her way out of depression, while Freeman Bontrager tries to gain Katie's trust in hopes of winning her heart.