Mick Brannigan, a construction worker, loses a good-paying job because of some freak accident, sort of his fault but not his fault. Adding insult to injury, he finds himself playing nursemaid to his three kids. "Mick's whole life felt like an accident..." Even more flustered is his wife, Layne, now forced to get a job to keep a paycheck coming in. Mick isn't the stay-at-home-dad type, she's sure. He's a good dad--when she is there to supervise it...

Caleb Bender and other members of an Ohio Amish community decide to relocate to Mexico to avoid conflicts with Ohio's laws. Caleb's family are the first settlers. His daughters eventually connect with the local people, but the family is endangered by the strife following the Mexican Revolution.

Ravaged by disease, preyed upon by ruthless bandits, the Bender family's second year in Mexico has taken a grievous turn. Faced with impossible choices, the expatriate Amish truly discover what it means to live by faith and not by sight. But it's Miriam who must make the hardest choice of all. Domingo. The chiseled native has proven himself a man of principle, grace, and power. Yet is he the pearl of great price for which Miriam would sacrifice everything?...

Poignant and thought provoking, this is a down-to-earth, sometimes humorous novel &supl;lled with suspense, action, redemption, and even romance. Seventeen-year-old Jeremy Prine decides to honor his mother's dying wish and seek out his estranged uncle who was badly burned in the accident that killed Jeremy's father. He &supl;nds the man working as a hard-rock miner in the south, an extremely dangerous occupation. His uncle seems a bitter and lonely...

"This epic trilogy concludes with the Amish community's pacifism sorely tested by attacking bandits and the equally cruel Mexican troops sent to defend the Amish"--Provided by publisher.