FROM A BESTSELLING & AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR WHO HAS SOLD OVER 3 MILLION BOOKS.
Sadie Miller is content with her job as a schoolteacher in a small Amish community located in southern Indiana. She loves children, but her past keeps her from pursuing marriage and having a family of her own. Sadie has too many painful memories.
When an anonymous declaration of love shows up on her desk in a sealed envelope, she is intrigued at first. But as she narrows down the possibilities—widowers or other unattached Amish men—her four potential suitors don’t fit the mold of someone posing as a secret admirer.
Could it be the father of her six-year-old student, Miriam? Lloyd Stoltzfus is recently widowed. He seems like an unlikely prospect since he is visibly overwhelmed with grief, having lost his wife only a month earlier.
What about Joseph Yoder, father of six-year-old Leah? He moved to Indiana a few months ago from Pennsylvania, bringing with him more questions than answers. Why doesn’t he have a wife? Why does Leah shy away from other students and adults?
Paul Lantz is a single, nice-looking—albeit arrogant—man, but Sadie can’t rule him out. He allows himself plenty of time for courtships even though he is raising his ten-year-old nephew, Adam, who is, unfortunately, growing up to be just like his uncle.
Groundskeeper, Henry Bontrager, has worked for the school for years. He’s never been married, nor does he have children. Sadie shares a friendship with Henry, but if he was going to profess his love for her, wouldn’t he have done so by now? Although his strange behavior lately is bewildering.
As Sadie delves deeper into each man’s possible motivations as her secret admirer, one thing becomes clear. They are all hiding secrets in one form or another. And, with each new clue about the man who possibly penned the letter, her intrigue turns into something else. Fear—for one of her students.
Is someone hiding a secret so big that it might pose a threat to Sadie, or, more importantly, is one of the children in her daytime care at risk?