When I first opened the book, I didn't realize it was second in a series that I had begun last year. So it was nice to catch up with Mary and Levi in this book and then follow their friends through a romance. There were quite a few surprises here that I wouldn't have suspected either from an actual Amish community or a typical Amish fiction book, but they kept me on my toes guessing about how things would play out in the end. Without any spoilers, I can say that the last page was the biggest disappointment for me. If you've read the novel, you might ask why....and I would say because 'why can't we have a unique ending, one that goes the other way, once in a while?'