Beyond the Rules (Unabridged‪)‬

Katie Smucker didn’t set out to break the rules. The first time she saw her shunned sister and spoke to her, she nearly buckled with guilt. But every time after that, it got easier and easier.


Both Katie’s sisters have left their Amish roots. Katie’s heart breaks every time she thinks about her mother never seeing her two grandchildren. Is there any way Katie can intervene? But how, without taking even more risks…


Katie has been smitten with Menno Bontrager for years. She seeks out excuses to see him and talk with him. Menno has been a butcher for years, and his father before him, and his grandfather before that. When Katie begins to have qualms about butchering animals for meat, she keeps it to herself. But one day, she blurts it out.


Making things worse, Menno finds out Katie has been secretly seeing her shunned sister. Katie fears all is lost, but then Menno makes a surprising claim.