The Alliance was also a finalist for the 2017 Christy Award in the Visionary category. CBA Retailers + Resources called her second book, The Midwife, 'an excellent read will be hard to put down,' and Booklist selected The Alliance as one of their Top 10 Inspirational Fiction Titles for 2016.

That book also became an ECPA, CBA, and Amazon bestseller and was featured in Huffington Post's Fall Picks, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and the Tennessean. fresh and inspirational' in a starred review and named one of the best books of 2013. Jolina Petersheim is the highly acclaimed author of How the Light Gets In, The Divide, The Alliance, The Midwife, and The Outcast, which Library Journal called 'outstanding. Whom will they help and whom will they turn away? When the community receives news of a new threat, everyone must decide how far they're willing to go to protect their beliefs and way of life. In the weeks that follow, Leora, Moses, and the community will be tested as never before, requiring them to make decisions they never thought possible. With the only self-sustaining food supply in the region, the Pacifist community is forced to forge an alliance with the handful of stranded Englischers in an effort to protect not only the food but their very lives. Moses offers a sobering theory, but no one can know how drastically life is about to change. When the young pilot, Moses Hughes, regains consciousness, they realize his instruments were destroyed by the same power outage that killed the electricity at the community store, where Englischers are stranded with dead cell phones and cars that won't start. When Leora Ebersole sees the small plane crash in her Old Order Mennonite community, she has no idea it's a foreshadowing of things to come.

The Outcast by Jolina Petersheim