It is autumn on the Kansas prairie and a band of Cheyenne Indians have just escaped from the Oklahoma reservation. All of a sudden Hannah is thrust into a nightmare that tests her inner strength and the rules of her church. In the midst of this crisis Hannah discovers an unlikely champion, but is it too little too late?
One year earlier...... Twenty-one year old Hannah Troyer is on the threshold of marriage to the ministers son, Benjamin Stoltz. Life in 1877, Iowa is harsh, especially if you are Amish, but this is the only life Hannah has ever known.
After a large Amish wedding Hannah and her husband move to Kansas to help bishop Samuel start an Amish community. Life on the 1888 Kansas prairie proves to be harder than she and the rest of her group could have imagined. And then the unthinkable happens....
A novel based on the history of the Cheyenne Exodus and the Amish church in the late 1800s.