Can a heart and soul mend?

Hannah Lapp left her Old Order Amish home of Owl's Perch, Pennsylvania several years ago in disgrace and fled to Ohio to begin a new life.  Only months before leaving Pennsylvania, she was engaged and happy.  But a horrible night changed all that.   No one believed she had been attacked.  Not her fiance, not the bishop, not even her own father.

Hannah found what she was seeking in Ohio when she was united with her father's twin sister who had been shunned many years back and was living in the Englischer's world.  She also found love and a new family when she met Martin Palmer who had recently been left raising his niece and nephew when his sister deserted them.  Between the Palmer family, her work with a doctor, and nursing school, Hannah's life was full and complete.  Or was it?

A fatal fire in Owl's Perch makes it necessary for Hannah to return to Owl's Creek and face her past.  However, she never expects that past to include her once fiance, Paul.  Can Hannah find the forgiveness she so desperately needs to be able to allow her soul to mend so that she can move forward with her life?

When the Soul Mends by Cindy Woodsmall, is the third in the Sisters of the Quilt series.  It follows When the Heart Cries and When the Morning Comes.  The preceding titles are given because I found it somewhat difficult to pick up in the story in the middle of the series.  Mrs. Woodsmall does provide a glossary of main characters from books 1 & 2 and it is something I found most helpful and necessary to refer back to on a regular basis as I found it challenging to keep up with all the lesser significant characters' names and connection to the main characters.  I also found some parts of the book to be difficult to follow as the sequence of events did not always connect as I thought they should. 

I have very much enjoyed all Amish fiction that I have read through the years and  I'm certain that this series would not be an exception.  However, I would recommend that, even though the book can be read as a separate entity, that the reader begins at the beginning of the series rather than in book 3.  When the Soul Mends is available from Amazon.com and through christianbook.com.