When Hannah dares to love across the boundaries of tradition, will she lose everything?

Despite being raised in a traditional Old Order Amish family, seventeen-year-old Hannah Lapp desires to break with custom, forgo baptism into the faith, and marry outside the cloistered community. She's been in love with Mennonite Paul Waddell for three years, and before returning to college for his senior year, Paul asks Hannah to be his wife. Hannah accepts, aware that her marriage will change her relationship with her family forever.

On the evening of their engagement, tragedy strikes and in one unwelcome encounter, all that Hannah has known and believed is destroyed. As she finds herself entangled in questions that the Old Ways of her people cannot answer, Hannah faces the possibility of losing her place in her family, in her community- and in the heart of the man she loves.

When the Heart Cries is book one in the Sisters of the Quilt series.

Author: Cindy Woodsmall
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Christian/Forum
Published: 09/19/2006
Series: Sisters of the Quilt #01
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781400072927


Award: 2007 Christian Book Award Finalist - Fiction


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2006 pg. 51
Christian Retailing 08/21/2006 pg. 17
Library Journal 09/01/2006 pg. 129
Booklist 01/01/2007 pg. 58

About the Author
Cindy Woodsmall is a New York Times and CBA best-selling author of numerous works of fiction and one of nonfiction. Her connection with the Amish community has been featured widely in national media. She lives in the Foothills of the North Georgia Mountains with her family.