Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forbidden Ways | 2019 | Karen Ann Hopkins | Buy |
| 2 | Sweet Regrets | 2020 | Karen Ann Hopkins | Buy |
The Crossroads series is Karen Ann Hopkins’s romantic companion to her long-running Serenity’s Plain Secrets mystery series. Set in and around the Amish settlement of Blood Rock, Indiana, these two books shift the focus from crime to love, telling the story of CJ West and Joshua Miller.
CJ is an aspiring artist nursing a broken heart. Joshua is an Amish widower raising a family and running a busy farm. When CJ rents a cottage from Joshua, an unlikely romance sparks between them. Their relationship faces the same cultural divide that runs through Hopkins’s other Amish fiction: CJ is an outsider, and Joshua’s community has strict boundaries. Readers who enjoy the Blood Rock setting from the Serenity books will find familiar territory here, with the mystery elements traded for a slower-paced love story about two people trying to bridge very different worlds.