The Big Sky Amish Collection

"She came to Montana to help her family. She found something she never knew she was missing."

Inspired by the true story of an Amish couple who left Indiana after tragedy and started anew in the rugged West Kootenai wilderness of Montana, the Big Sky series follows eighteen-year-old Marianna Sommer through one of the most defining seasons of her life. With her plans for a simple Amish future uprooted, she must navigate questions of identity, belonging, faith, and love, all against the breathtaking backdrop of the Montana mountains.

USA Today bestselling author Tricia Goyer crafts this series with rare authenticity, drawing on close relationships with real Amish families and years of research to bring West Kootenai to vivid life. What emerges is something deeper than a romance or a cultural portrait. It's a story about the moment God interrupts your carefully ordered life and invites you into something far more beautiful.

What Readers Are Saying

"Only a gifted writer like Tricia Goyer could present such a captivating story about a group of Amish forging a new community in Montana. Tricia writes in such a way that the reader can't wait to turn the page." — Suzanne Woods Fisher, bestselling author of the Lancaster County Series

"A moving and gentle story that touched my heart and stirred my soul. I'm recommending Beside Still Waters to all my friends who enjoy Amish fiction." — Marlo Schalesky, Christy Award–winning author

"Tricia has a gift with the Amish genre — a different voice that kept pulling on my heartstrings, and it just would not let go. One of the best. Period." — Goodreads reviewer

"I was immediately sucked in by her compelling plots and challenging spiritual messages. Goyer writes this book exactly how I wish more Amish books were written." — Amazon reviewer

"I have grown to love the character of Marianna. She develops so much from book to book. Be ready for a great conclusion — and wish I could have more visits." — Goodreads reviewer, Beyond Hope's Valley

About the Books

Book One: Beside Still Waters

Raised among the Amish of Indiana, 18-year-old Marianna Sommer plans to get baptized into the church, marry Aaron Zook, and set up life in the only community she has ever known.  But when her older brother chooses the world’s path following his rumschpringe, and a younger sibling begins showing interest in Englisch ways, Marianna’s parents move the family to Montana.

Although she is also in her rumschpringe years and not obligated to move, Marianna makes the journey to dutifully help her mother who is expecting another child. Surprisingly, from strangers on the cross-country train ride to the less rigid stance of the new Montana community, many Englisch influences awaken within Marianna—and even her father—the desire to pursue a deeper kind of joy and love for God.

Book Two: Along Wooded Paths

Life in the remote Montana mountains is teaching Marianna something her upbringing never did: you can't survive alone. As her proudly self-sufficient Amish family finds itself depending on Englisch neighbors, the walls between two worlds slowly begin to come down. But it's Marianna's own heart that grows most complicated. Torn between Aaron, the Amish man she's long planned to marry, and Ben, the Englischer who walks with God more closely than anyone she's ever known, she faces a choice that isn't simply about love. It's about who she's becoming and what God is asking her to lay down.

Book Three: Beyond Hope's Valley

Marianna returns to Indiana to do two things: help her brother as he prepares for a new baby and a wedding, and to plan her own marriage to Aaron which she has dreamed of since childhood. But the home she longed for no longer feels like home. As winter thaws, long-buried secrets begin to surface: truths about a child, about a past romance, and about what God has actually planned for Marianna's life. Standing at the crossroads of who she was raised to be and who she is becoming, Marianna must walk through a valley of questions and discover that hope doesn't always look the way you imagined it.

Book Four: Beyond the Gray Mountains

Marianna Sommer always dreamed of a simple Amish wedding. What she didn't dream of was falling in love with a rock star. Ben Stone loves her but he carries regrets and fears he hasn't yet named, and suddenly he's putting their wedding on hold. When Marianna's father suggests Ben join him and his brother Ike in the high Montana mountains to seek God's voice, Ben agrees, half-convinced it won't work. What he doesn't expect is the danger waiting for them on the continental divide or how deeply he'll need to reach inside himself to bring everyone home alive.

Back in the valley, Marianna watches a riderless horse return with a blood-stained saddle. As the media descends and her worst fears take shape, she realizes she no longer cares what the wedding looks like. She just wants Ben to come home. But when he does, there are secrets between them she couldn't have anticipated. The question becomes not just whether she can marry him, but whether love is truly worth the cost of sacrifice.

Book Five: On the Golden Mountains

(by Christen Krumm)

Lyla Taylor built a beautiful life online until one ill-timed post brought it all crashing down. Desperate for a reset, she agrees to six weeks in rural Montana, expecting a high-end retreat. What she gets instead is a drafty dawdy house, raccoon visitors on her first night, and an Amish farm family that has no interest in her follower count.

Reuben Milner has enough on his plate. Since losing his father, he's become the backbone of the family, supporting his mother, four sisters, and a secret life as a novelist that doesn't exactly square with Amish expectations. He doesn't need a high-maintenance guest stirring up emotions he's not allowed to act on. But as Lyla rolls up her sleeves and throws herself into helping the Milners, something shifts in both of them. The golden mountains surrounding West Kootenai have a way of stripping away what isn't real—and revealing what is.

Book Six: Under the Blue Sky

(by Elly Gilbert)

Thomas Smucker came to West Kootenai to start over away from a controlling father and the person he'd been told to be. But within weeks of arriving, he finds himself the unexpected guardian of his five-year-old niece, and every plan he'd made for his new life evaporates. The fresh start he was promised feels like another cage.

Lovina Graber has learned to live with limitations. A childhood accident left its mark on her face, and she long ago made peace with the likelihood that marriage and motherhood wouldn't be hers. So she serves. She helps. When Thomas finds himself completely out of his depth with a grieving little girl, Lovina steps in with a quiet grace that neither of them fully understands yet. As Thomas and his niece slowly find their footing, his gratitude for Lovina deepens into something he didn't plan for. But Lovina has spent a lifetime keeping hope at arm's length. She isn't sure whether she can afford to hope again now.

About the Author

Tricia Goyer is a USA Today bestselling author of more than 80 books, with over three million copies sold. She is a two-time Carol Award winner, Retailer's Best Award recipient, ECPA Gold Medallion Nominee, Christy Award Finalist, and winner of Writer of the Year from the Mt. Hermon Christian Writers Conference. She has been featured in USA Today, The Washington Post, and the New York Times. A homeschooling mom of ten— seven by adoption—grandmother, and wife, Tricia writes stories that matter.