Shelley Shepard Gray

NYT and USA Today bestselling, award-winning author, Shelley Shepard Gray has written over 40 novels. She wanted to write stories about regular, likeable people in extraordinary situations-and who just happened to be Amish. In addition to her writing as Shelley Shepard Gray, she has written a dozen novels for Harlequin Romance under the pseudonym Shelley Galloway.

Before writing romances, Shelley lived in Texas and Colorado, where she taught school and earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education. Shelley often attends conferences and reader retreats in order to give workshops. Shelley belongs to RWA and ACFW. She’s been married for over twenty years and resides in Ohio.

Favorite Verse: Romans 12:12: Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

Years have passed since an attempted assault and an accidental death forever changed the lives of Bethanne Hostetler and Jay Raber. When an unexpected turn of events gives them an opportunity to make peace with the past, they’ll have to make it through yet another dangerous situation before the healing can begin.

Ex-con Seth Zimmerman has spent the last three years making amends by helping the vulnerable in his former Amish community. Lately, this mission includes calling on Tabitha Yoder, whose divorce from her abusive husband has isolated her from the community. Even though she never comes out of her house to talk to him, Seth knows she watches him from the window while he chops wood, clears her driveway, and drops off food.
An uneasy friendship is just starting to take hold between them when small gifts begin to appear at Tabitha's home--gifts that can only be from her ex-husband. Seth might be Tabitha's only hope at maintaining her hard-won freedom from the man whose violent outbursts had almost cost her life. But coming to her rescue might mean he ends up behind bars once again.