When an Amish boy is kidnapped, a bishop, fearful for the safety of his followers, plunges three outsiders into the traditionally closed society of the 'Plain Ones'. In the Old Order Amish communities of Ohio's Holmes County, it is rare for one of the self-styled 'plain' people to seek aid from an outsider, one of 'the English.' But Bishop Eli Miller needs help and finds it in a local academic, Michael Brandon. Murder, suspicion and seclusion abound in the first novel in a brand new crime series set in Amish country.