“In Plain View,” is book 2 in Olivia Newport’s 'Valley of Choice series', and continues the story of Annie who has left her fast-paced life behind for a quieter and simpler life with an Amish community. Annie is loving the simple life that she found...

Olivia Newport’s Valley of Choice series is continued with book three, Taken for English. This part of the saga begins with Annie’s baptism and official commitment to becoming Amish and joining the Amish community. Annie and the entire Beiler family hope that this will lead...

In Meek and Mild by Olivia Newport, shunning is common among those in the Amish faith because they believe shunning one of their own will bring them back to the faith and roots of their Amish people. But is shunning friends in your Amish community...

Full disclosure, I have been interested and intrigued by the Amish culture and way of life since I was a young girl growing up near both Amish and Mennonite communities. Whenever I get a chance to read something about their culture, whether fiction or non-fiction,...

In a story set in the 1930s, amid the struggles to survive life in the Depression, Amish housewife, Gloria, and her English neighbor, Minerva, grasp at faint straws of hope to make it through yet another winter. Their clashes and disagreements formed long ago as...