Elise Meadows is the author of heartfelt Amish and Mennonite Christian romance novels set among the Plain communities of the American countryside, where love is quiet, hard-won, and worth every mile of the road to reach it. 

Her novels follow widows and carpenters, quilters and schoolteachers, prodigals and the ones who never stopped waiting for them. At the heart of every book are the things that hold a Plain community together: faith, family, forgiveness, and second chances that arrive just when they're least expected.

Her five-book series, The Quilt Shop on Hertzler Road, opens with A Reason to Stay and follows one close-knit district through stories of loss, homecoming, and the slow mending of hearts — stitched together, like the quilts themselves, one patient piece at a time.

New readers can begin with a free novel, The Amish Prodigal's Second Chance — the story of a man who left before his baptism, and the woman who never once wrote him off. Sign up here to claim your copy and be first to hear about every new book.