"Incredibly well-researched, thoroughly enjoyable, and singularly original."--SHELLEY SHEPARD GRAY, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author
"A beautiful story of love, loss, and the bonds that connect a family to its faith."--SUZANNE WOODS FISHER, bestselling author of A Season on the Wind
Ivy Zimmerman is successfully navigating her life as a young Mennonite woman, one generation removed from her parents'' Old Order Amish upbringing. But when her parents are killed in a tragic accident, Ivy''s way of life is upended. As she deals with her grief, her younger sisters'' needs, the relationship with her boyfriend, and her Dawdi and Mammi''s strict rules, Ivy finds solace in both an upcoming trip to Germany for an international Mennonite youth gathering and in her great-great-aunt''s story about Clare Simons, another young woman who visited Germany in the late 1930s.
As Ivy grows suspicious tha
