The matchmakers have their eyes on romance -- and in this small Amish community, no one is safe. Their sights are set on plain, independent Willow, who's shocked when her parents try to marry her off to bachelor Samuel. But can she and Samuel evader their parents' meddling long enough to find love on their own? Then there's Valerie, a widow who's never recovered from losing the man she really loved. Now at her friend's urging, she and Ed have...

According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian-born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness-is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations-looking, listening, touching, and asking-something a man can never do with a female patient. From...