Annie Friesen is a 27 year old software developer who
owns her own company. She no longer trusts her boyfriend, (who is also
her lawyer), and while fleeing from him, stows away in the back of a
pickup truck and ends up on an Amish farm, where she meets Rufus Beiler
and his family. As she is trying to figure out a way to save her
company, she finds a sense of peace and contentment as she is living
among the Amish and getting to know Rufus and his family.
When
she learns that she may share a common ancestor with the Beilers, she
becomes interested in genealogy. She traces her family back to the
1700's. Interwoven with the present day story is the story of Jakob and
Verona Beyeler, who are on a boat with their 5 children to settle in
Pennsylvania.






