Keen for a reprieve from the elements, the rest of the men do not wait for us they continue hiking together up the trail, their boots marring the runner of snow. I bend to pick up the ax, but he moves faster than I, slipping it into the rucksack on his back-the stringer of fish trapped in his other hand. The acceptance in his voice makes me restless. Without touching me, he draws the lapels of his coat over my sodden wool coat beneath it. The fabric wafts of fish, sweat, and snow. He walks up and places his mackinaw around my shoulders. So focused on my sibling failure, I didn’t hear Jabil approach. Just how much will her shifting landscape change her?Īmazon US // iBooks // Goodreads // Koorong ~ Excerpt ~ When long-held beliefs are once again put to the test, Leora wrestles with the divide between having faith and taking action. But she struggles to see herself as the bishop’s wife, especially when she learns that Moses is alive and has now joined a local militia.Īn unexpected encounter in the woods deepens Leora’s crisis, as does a terrifying new threat that brings Moses’ militia into the community’s shaky alliance with the few Englischers left among them.

Unsure Moses even survived, Leora has begun to warm to the affections of Jabil Snyder, who has courted her patiently.

Since then, Leora has watched and waited for news of Moses Hughes, the young Englischer pilot who held off invading looters long enough for everyone to escape.

In this gripping conclusion to The Alliance, nearly six months have passed since Leora Ebersole’s Old Order Mennonite community fled to the mountains for refuge after an attack destroyed the power grid and altered life as they knew it.

The Outcast by Jolina Petersheim