Jolina Petersheim
1) The outcast
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Independent single woman Rachel is shunned by the Mennonite community she grew up in when she becomes pregnant, and dark secrets threaten to rise when her bishop brother-in-law coerces her to leave.
2) The midwife
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The past: Graduate student Beth Winslow was sure she was ready to become a surrogate. Then the parents decided to end the pregnancy, and she fled to Hopen Haus, a home for unwed mothers in a Tennessee Mennonite community. The present: As head midwife of Hopen Haus, Rhoda Mummau delivers babies with confident ease, and keeps her past carefully concealed. But past and present collide when a young woman named Amelia arrives.
3) The alliance
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After a mysterious power outage destroys their electricity, a Mennonite community is forced into an alliance with a group of stranded Englishers and the Mennonites must decide if they are going to compromise their beliefs to save others from an unknown threat.
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"From the highly acclaimed author of The Outcast and The Alliance, which New York Times bestselling author Lisa Wingate called "a book that begs to be savored," comes an engrossing novel about marriage and motherhood, loss and moving on. When Ruth Neufeld's husband and father-in-law are killed working for a relief organization overseas, she travels to Wisconsin with her young daughters and mother-in-law Mabel to bury her husband. She hopes the Mennonite...
5) The divide
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In this gripping conclusion to The Alliance, nearly six months have passed since Leora Ebersole's Old Order Mennonite community fled to the mountains for refuge after an attack destroyed the power grid and altered life as they knew it. Since then, Leora has watched and waited for news of Moses Hughes, the young Englischer pilot who held off invading looters long enough for everyone to escape. Unsure Moses even survived, Leora has begun to warm to...