She was taught that God lives in the cornfields. Caleb Miller is proving He also lives on the waves.
Hannah Yoder expected a summer of service. She didn’t expect a sea change of the heart.
Hannah is a woman of the valley—a place of cricket songs, cornfields, and the rhythmic safety of the Amish Ordnung. But when she and her stern Aunt Martha are sent to the coast to run a boardwalk bakery, she is thrust into a world of neon lights, thumping bass, and the restless, salt-scented Atlantic. Everything here is “English,” loud, and undeniably foreign to a girl who has always lived behind the fence of her community.
Then she meets Caleb Miller.
A rugged fisherman with a blue pickup and a thirty-two-foot boat named The Grace, Caleb lives by the tide. He isn’t Plain, yet he speaks her language—literally. With Amish grandparents and a weathered family Bible on his nightstand, Caleb bridges the gap between Hannah’s rigid traditions and the vast, open horizon of the coast.
As the summer heat rises, so does the tension. Between the pressure of a looming marriage to a deacon’s son back home and the growing roots she feels sinking into the coastal sand, Hannah begins to realize that faith isn’t just about the rules you follow—it’s about the room you choose to live in.
When a trial of fire threatens the boardwalk and a letter from the valley demands her return, Hannah must decide: Does she go back to the safety of the fields, or does she trust the God of the tides and choose the life she was never supposed to want?
A beautiful story of heritage, forbidden connection, and finding home in the most unexpected places.
