This series was planned as a trilogy, and I hope it will be as satisfying a journey for readers as it was for me as a writer. They’ve experienced the joys-and challenges-of the outside world in San Francisco in A Clean Break, and going home is fraught with emotion and anxiety. This is the world to which Isaac and David must return in the third book in the trilogy, A Way Home.

In Kentucky, some Swartzentruber men went to jail rather than compromise their belief that God will protect them on the road, and that shiny orange is just too vain. One Swartzentruber tenet that I think symbolizes how they are different from other Amish is their refusal to use orange reflective triangles on their buggies. My characters are Swartzentruber Amish, and as such live very restrictive lives. I set A Forbidden Rumspringa in a fictional town in northern Minnesota called Zebulon.

Just as all Italians aren’t alike, neither are the Amish. On the other end of the spectrum are the Swartzentruber Amish, who don’t have indoor plumbing. For example, the Beachy Amish-Mennonites drive cars and use electricity. One of the most surprising things I learned while researching this series was how many different sects there are within the Amish faith, and how different one group can be from another. Contest ends Sunday, April 19 at midnight PST. Be sure to include your email address in your comment. Just comment on this post and let me know where your hometown is, and you’ll be entered to win a draw for one of my backlist books. Thanks so much to Boys in Our Books for having me! I’m here today to talk about A Way Home, the third book in my gay Amish trilogy. David shares his sinful secrets, and he and Isaac struggle to reconcile their shocking desires with their commitment to faith, family and community.BLOG TOUR – GUEST POST & GIVEAWAY: “A Way Home” by Keira Andrews But when he takes on Isaac as an apprentice, their attraction grows amid the sweat and sawdust.

Dark tragedy has left carpenter David Lantz alone to support his mother and sisters, and he can't put off joining the church any longer. Isaac knows he'll have to officially join the church and find a wife before too long, but he yearns for something else-something he can't name. At 18, Isaac Byler knows little outside the strict Amish settlement of Zebulon, Minnesota, where there is no rumspringa for exploration beyond the boundaries of their insular world.

When two young Amish men find love, will they risk losing everything? In a world where every detail of life-down to the width of a hat brim-is dictated by God and the all-powerful rules of the community, two men dare to imagine a different way.

A Way Home by Keira Andrews