The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core‎.‎ But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure‎:‎ circumstantial evidence suggests that that eighteen‎-year‎-old Katie Fisher‎,‎ an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn‎'‎s mother‎,‎ took the child‎'‎s life‎.‎ When Ellie Hathaway‎,‎ a disillusioned big city attorney‎,‎ comes to Paradise‎,‎ Pennsylvania‎,‎ to defend Katie‎,‎ two cultures collide ‎- and‎,‎ for the first time in her high profile career‎,‎ Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own‎.‎ Delving deep into the world of those who live ‎'‎plain‎'‎‎,‎ Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms‎.‎ As she unravels a tangled murder case‎,‎ Ellie also looks deep within ‎- to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past comes back into her life‎.‎