Where The Quiet Lives

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Abigail Troyer has always known exactly what she is — quiet, bookish, serious — and exactly what she isn't. She isn't the kind of person that someone like Thomas Esh notices. Thomas Esh is the kind of young man Bird-in-Hand has always taken for granted — warm, funny, the person everyone is glad to see at any gathering. Entirely, everyone assumes, uncomplicated. They have been avoiding each other since they were fourteen. Not unkindly. Just as two people who have looked at each other from a distance, drawn their conclusions, and found it simpler to keep things as they are. Then, slowly and without either of them deciding it, things change. Conversations that last longer than they should. The particular quality of someone who listens as though what you are saying is the only thing worth hearing. The dawning, inconvenient awareness that the conclusions drawn at fourteen were not as accurate as they seemed. And then a letter arrives, offering Abigail a teaching position two and a half hours away. And everything that has been quietly, carefully building between them is suddenly something that cannot be ignored. Where the Quiet Lives is the third book in the Bird-in-Hand series — a slow-burn Amish romance about six years of wrong assumptions and what happens when they finally run out. From Catherine Miller, author of Where the Heart Remains and The Road Back to You.

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Is Where The Quiet Lives appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 13 and up.

A gentle Amish romance with no sexual content, violence, or strong language. Focuses on emotional connection and faith-based community life.