The Place She Stayed

Grace Yoder came to Bird-in-Hand for one school year.

She left behind a comfortable life in Holmes County — and Daniel, who had been patient and kind and almost enough — to take a one-room schoolhouse position in Lancaster County. It was meant to be temporary. A chance to teach, to see a little more of the world, and then come home.

She did not expect to find that Bird-in-Hand felt, in ways she couldn't yet name, more like home than the place she'd left.

But wanting to stay and being able to stay are different things. There is the school board's decision, still pending. There is her family waiting in Holmes County, certain she is coming back. And there is Jonas — steady, careful Jonas — who has not asked her to choose, but whose presence has become something she cannot imagine leaving behind.

The Place She Stayed is the eighth book in the Bird-in-Hand series — a quiet, warm Amish romance set in the heart of Lancaster County.