Plain Jayne

Jayne Tate has built a comfortable life in a busy city, where she writes for a newspaper that never slows down and sees a man who has no idea where she came from. The death of her father shakes that routine and sends her back to questions about what she actually wants. When a major promotion slips away, she heads to the Amish community in Oregon, hoping to find some peace and perhaps a story worth telling. Her plan runs into trouble quickly, because the quiet countryside of buggies and bonnets is not as simple as she imagined.

Jayne's interest in Levi Burkholder, a reserved and striking local man, grows steadily, and she tells herself it is only research for her article. Her life in the city, with its lattes, laptop and motorcycle, begins to clash with the community around her, and she starts to change in ways she did not plan.

The novel is a romance with a fish-out-of-water setting, mixing a contemporary career woman's voice with the rural Amish world of Oregon.