
She spends many hours in trying to build stories around people and places and drinks too many cups of coffee in the process. After her kids go to school each morning, she sits on her desk and begins to dream about other places by looking out of her window. She has said in her interviews that she finds it very difficult to find time from her busy activities to write novels, but somehow manages to do so and writes interesting novels for her fans. The normal daily routines of Shelly are filled with the activities of a normal housewife and mother. Shelley lives in southern Ohio along with her husband, a couple of teenage children and a couple of pet dogs. She says that she always wanted to write stories about the regular and likable people who are stuck in extraordinary situations, the people who mostly turned out to be Amish. Shelley is known to write her novels, particularly in the Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality and the Romance genres. Just as Hannah is finally settling into her new life, and perhaps finding a new love, more secrets are revealed and tragedy strikes. Now Hannah must decide if she should run again or dare to fight for the future she has found in Hart County.Shelley Shepard Gray is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, who has written and sold over 40 novels in her career. But as Hannah and Isaac slowly grow closer, they realize that there’s always more to someone than meets the eye. However, he also understands the importance of being grateful for God’s gifts, and wonders if they will ever have anything in common. When he learns of her past, he knows he’s misjudged her. She wonders if she’ll ever return to the trusting, easy-going woman she once was.įor Isaac Troyer, the beautiful girl he teasingly called “The Recluse” confuses him like no other. Hannah has become afraid to trust anyone-even Isaac, the friendly Amish man who lives next door. Now she’s getting a fresh start in Hart County, Kentucky…if only she wasn’t too scared to take it. Shelley Shepard Gray begins a new series-The Amish of Hart County-with this suspenseful tale of a young Amish woman who is forced to move to a new town to escape a threatening stalker.Īfter a stalker went too far, Hannah Hilty and her family had no choice but to leave the bustling Amish community where she grew up.
