When The Heart Cries: A Novel

Cindy Woodsmall

Nov 2008 · Sisters of the Quilt Book 1 · Oasis Audio · Narrated by Jill Shellabarger

About this audiobook

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.

About the author

Cindy Woodsmall is a best-selling author of Amish fiction. Her first novel, When the Heart Cries, was published in 2006. She writes several series including Amish Vines and Orchards, Ada's House, and Sisters of the Quilt. She also coauthored the nonfiction work Plain Wisdom: An Invitation into an Amish Home and the Hearts of Two Women with Miriam Flaud.