Willard Carpenter

Willard Carpenter has published the well-received Secrets of the Son Series, --Amish romance that features the novels Prodigal and Unveiling. His current WIP, Fall of Crimson Leaves, is based on that series. He lives in Pennsylvania where he has many Amish friends within and surrounding the Amish community of Honeybrook, Pa. Patrick Craig has published Amish fiction with Harvest House, Harlequin, and his own imprint, P&J Publishing. He is contracted with Elk Lake Publishing for a multi-book Amish cozy mystery series and a YA mystery series. His Amish titles include A Quilt for Jenna, The Road Home, Jenny's Choice, The Amish Heiress, The Amish Princess, and The Mennonite Queen. Jerry S. Eicher has published over thirty titles of both fiction and nonfiction related to Amish life through Harvest House publishers. Thomas Nye has published Amish fiction with CrossLink, Celebrate Lit, and Dove Christian Publishers. His writing focuses on Amish daily life inspired by forty years of close connections with his Amish neighbors. He is the author of the Amish Horses Series (Under the Heavens, Catbird Singing, and English River). Other titles include Whispering to Horses, Amish Park, Samson and Amish Delilah. Murray Pura has three Amish novels releasing with Harlequin in 2020. His Amish titles with Harvest House include The Wings of Morning, The Face of Heaven and An Amish Family Christmas. With MillerWords, Ride the Sky, The Bride from Virginia City and Grace Rider. He lives near the Amish communities of Rexford, Libby, and St. Ignatius in Montana. Amos Wyse is the indie author of The Meek, the first novel in an Amish fiction series, as well as seven novellas set in the fictional town of Barnville, Pa. His works echo his small-town Midwest upbringing.

Willard Carpenter has published the well-received Secrets of the Son Series, --Amish romance that features the novels Prodigal and Unveiling. His current WIP, Fall of Crimson Leaves, is based on that series. He lives in Pennsylvania where he has many Amish friends within and surrounding the Amish community of Honeybrook, Pa. Patrick Craig has published Amish fiction with Harvest House, Harlequin, and his own imprint, P&J Publishing. He is contracted with Elk Lake Publishing for a multi-book Amish cozy mystery series and a YA mystery series. His Amish titles include A Quilt for Jenna, The Road Home, Jenny's Choice, The Amish Heiress, The Amish Princess, and The Mennonite Queen. Jerry S. Eicher has published over thirty titles of both fiction and nonfiction related to Amish life through Harvest House publishers. Thomas Nye has published Amish fiction with CrossLink, Celebrate Lit, and Dove Christian Publishers. His writing focuses on Amish daily life inspired by forty years of close connections with his Amish neighbors. He is the author of the Amish Horses Series (Under the Heavens, Catbird Singing, and English River). Other titles include Whispering to Horses, Amish Park, Samson and Amish Delilah. Murray Pura has three Amish novels releasing with Harlequin in 2020. His Amish titles with Harvest House include The Wings of Morning, The Face of Heaven and An Amish Family Christmas. With MillerWords, Ride the Sky, The Bride from Virginia City and Grace Rider. He lives near the Amish communities of Rexford, Libby, and St. Ignatius in Montana. Amos Wyse is the indie author of The Meek, the first novel in an Amish fiction series, as well as seven novellas set in the fictional town of Barnville, Pa. His works echo his small-town Midwest upbringing.

Where does an 18-year-old Amish boy go when he 'jumps the fence' during his rumspringa? What does he become? Who is he when he returns? Prodigal, is about a young Amish teenager who leaves the Amish community to pursue an education and finds himself, in a unique career, abhorrent to the Amish. His father dying, he returns home 25 years later. Clues involving secrets to his past begin to emerge. Though Prodigal is about the mystery surrounding Samuel, it most importantly is about his wife, Mary, an Amish widow with two children. She is 16 years younger than Samuel, who is all but by name English. Because of her husband's past, she enjoys and is empowered with freedoms not afforded other Amish married woman. Though she adheres to the tenants of her faith, Mary is also strong, passionate and somewhat independent.