When Amish widow Emma Yoder offers quilting lessons, she acquires a diverse collection of six non-Amish students who form bonds with her and each other as they work through their problems and learn to create beautiful quilts.

In the sleeping town of Archers Rest, Nell Fitzgerald is finishing her first quilt and preparing for her first date -- with Police Chief Jesse Dewalt. When Jesse stands her up, it turns out he has a very good reason. The body of a murdered young woman has been discovered by the Hudson River. Meanwhile, the members of Nell's quilting circle encourage her to take drawing classes with the famous artist Olive White. When Nell's professor meets her grandmother,...

When she stumbles over the body of baseball coach Dax Martin, middle-age divorcee Martha Ross and her fellow quilters must piece together the clues to figure out who in their neighborhood wanted the coach benched permanently.

Master quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, having uncovered letters in an antique desk written by slave Joanna, pieces together the story of the woman's life, learning of how she escaped only to be captured and sold again and created a quilt which hid clues about how to get back in order to be reunited with the son she was forced to leave behind.

Just weeks before Christmas, severe wintry weather damages the church hall hosting the Christmas Boutique--an annual sale of handcrafted gifts and baked goods that supports the county food pantry. Determined to save the fundraiser, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson offers to hold the event at Elm Creek Manor, her ancestral family estate and summertime home to Elm Creek Quilt Camp.

"Quilters and crafters rejoice! This story of a community coming together to make a quilt is a heartwarming celebration of creativity and teamwork. The kids and grown-ups at a community center begin with lots of colorful fabrics and an idea. Then step by step they make that idea a reality. They design, cut, stitch, layer, and quilt. It's the work of many hands, many hours, and many stories. And the result is something warm and wonderful they all...

When cat lover and quilter Jillian Hart volunteers to help a local animal shelter relocate a colony of feral cats living in an abandoned textile mill, she never expects to find a woman living there, too. Jeannie went missing from Mercy, South Carolina, a decade ago, after her own daughter's disappearance. Jeannie refuses to leave the mill or abandon Boots, her cat who died years ago. After all, she and Boots feel the need to protect the premises from...

"Nell Fitzgerald is thrilled to be able to take a break from her complicated romantic life in Archers Rest as she helps the women of Someday Quilts teach a quilting class at a new bed-and-breakfast in upstate New York. Her hopes for an idyllic escape disappear, however, when the inn's proprietor is found shot through the heart--and one of the members of the quilting group is named as the chief suspect. With smart, spirited Nell leading the charge...

"From bestselling authors of Amish fiction come three charming stories of cozy quilting circles and budding romance"-- PATCHWORK PROMISES: After a devastating fire, Joann Lapp is determined to re-create a beloved family quilt for Colin Zook and his grandmother, who is struggling with dementia. A COMMON THREAD: A bus ride with an old flame rekindles love for Susie Glick, but her quilting circle sisters fear that her heart will be broken when Alex...