Eighteen-year-old Debbie was raised on her family's rural dairy farm, forty minutes and a world away from Dublin. She lives with her mother, Maeve, a skittish woman who takes to her bed for days on end, claims not to know who Debbie's father is, and believes her dreams are prophecies. Rounding out their small family is Maeve's brother Billy, who lives in a caravan behind their house, drinks too much, and likes to impersonate famous dead writers online....

Horses all across the county are disappearing, including Cheryl's Ranger and the Millers' Samson. So she and Levi join forces to find the thieves and recover their animals. In the meantime, Cheryl stumbles across an old diary of a recently deceased Sugarcreek resident, Emmaline Draper. Apparently, when the author was young, she had fallen in love with an Amish man. But because she was an Englischer, the couple never acted on their feelings. The words...

"Tired of always dreaming and never doing, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget make a life-altering decision. Uprooting themselves from their comfortable lives in the suburbs, the three friends buy a run-down mansion, nestled in the picturesque Shenandoah Valley. They christen their new home "Ladybug Farm," hoping that the name will bring them luck. As the friends take on a home improvement challenge of epic proportions, they encounter disaster after disaster,...