Becky Riehl’s life is falling apart. Jonathan Miller, Becky’s longtime crush, is courting and possibly engaged to her best friend; the pizza parlor in town closed and now Becky has no job for the summer; and her baby sister, Lavender, thinks Becky purposefully let Lavender’s pet rabbit out of her hutch. Everything is a disaster. Now all she wants to do is hide out in her room, but she knows her mamm and dat are expecting her to find a new job faster than soon.

Jeremiah Kurtz has seen more than his fair share of trouble, but he was too trusting and fell in with the wrong crowd during his rumspringa. His Amish community forgives him his trespasses, but the Englischers aren’t as quick to let things go. Jeremiah’s father decides that he should get out of Missouri and spend the summer with their family in Wells Landing.

But Jeremiah is an outsider in Oklahoma. He finally got out of jail, but now he’s in a different sort of prison. Night after night, he finds himself holed up in his room, alone, with nothing but a book for company. Then his uncle introduces him to the girl next door, Becky Reihl.

Becky wants to take him around and show him Wells Landing. At his uncle’s behest, Jeremiah reluctantly agrees. But Jeremiah doesn’t tell Becky the truth about why he has come to Wells Landing. He’s already learned that some secrets are best kept to yourself.

As the summer wears on, Becky finds herself wanting to spend more and more time with Jeremiah. They have so much in common. The books they read, the dreams of a farm far away from troubles and backstabbing best friends, and a life not fraught with…never-ending-problems.

Jeremiah loves how Becky looks at him. Sometimes, being with her is like having a second chance to make those best decisions the first time around. But when his cousin lets it slip that he came to Oklahoma straight from jail, Jeremiah knows the gig is up.

However, Becky has her own set of secrets. Forgiveness may be the cornerstone of their Amish communities, but what kind of lasting relationship can be built on a platform of deceit?