Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To an outsider, these so-called “bonnet-rippers” look placid and innocuous. Notably, no bonnets are actually torn within the pages ...

Beverly Lewis could be Colorado’s most successful author. Her specialty? Bonnet-busters, as Amish romance novels are called — even though she’s not Amish. Since 1965, Lewis has lived in Colorado ...

There are several new Amish romance series for this month to enjoy! First is Amy Lillard’s “Just Plain Sadie,” part of her series of books set in Wells Landing, Oklahoma. Sadie has watched all of her ...

Put aside that titillating vampire lit. Author Beverly Lewis has come up with a new magic formula for producing best-selling romance novels: humility, plainness and no sex. Lewis’ G-rated books, set ...

An Amish farm is likely to have a horse-drawn buggy in the yard and no electric lights in the house. The men of the sect (an offshoot of the Mennonites) wear wide-brimmed black hats, plain black suits ...

The success of the genre has spawned not just new Amish fiction authors but spinoff series about other cloistered communities. If you want to sell it, as one literary agent put it, put a bonnet on it.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." To an outsider, these so-called “bonnet-rippers” look placid and innocuous. Notably, no bonnets are ...