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"On a hot day in 1737 in Rotterdam, Anna Konig reluctantly sets foot on a merchant ship that will carry her and her fellow Amish believers across the Atlantic to start a new life. As the only one in her community who can speak English, she feels compelled to go. But Anna is determined to complete this journey and return home. Ship's carpenter Bairn resents the somber people who fill the lower deck. Delays, storms, illness, and diminishing provisions...
2) The newcomer
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"In 1737, Anna Konig and her fellow church members stagger off a small wooden ship after ten weeks at sea, eager to start a new life in the vibrant but raw Pennsylvania frontier. On the docks of Port Philadelphia waits bishop Jacob Bauer, founder of the settlement and father to ship carpenter Bairn. It's a time of new beginnings for the reunited Bauer family, and for Anna and Bairn's shipboard romance to blossom.
But this perfect moment cannot last....
3) The return
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1763: Betsy Zook never questioned her family's rigid expectations, nor those of devoted Hans--but then she never had to. Not until the night she's taken captive in an Indian raid. Facing brutality and hardship, Betsy finds herself torn between her pious upbringing and the feelings she's developed for a native man who encourages her to see God in all circumstances. Greatly anguished by Betsy's captivity, Hans turns to Tessa Bauer for comfort. She responds...
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