Levi is engaged to a girl who goes on Rumspringa and decides not to return to the Amish way. The house he built for her and furniture begun sit idley by as he comes to terms with her betrayal. He does not know that other betrayals will happen before he finds happiness. An Amish girl thinks she will never marry because she cannot have children. Will Levi and her find happiness together? Will the elders permit it? Will one elder be excommunicated for teaching what is not usually taught to children?

Sandy Grissom
has loved books all her life. That love began by listening to her older sister read when she was still too young to discover the magic for herself. She's read everything from history to the phone book but her favorite authors are James Michener, Agatha Christie and the mystic William Blake.

Over the years, romantic novels became a favorite. The top of that list is Pride and Prejudice. When she retired she had too much time on her hands and spent too much money and trips to the library to get books in order to satisfy her restless soul. It was then she began to write herself.

As an adult she held a variety of jobs, all of them grist for her imaginative mind. The occupations in Choppy Waters will hopefully inspire someone to fight for their own dreams, to never give up on themselves or on love.

A widow, Sandy recently moved to southern Indiana where she lives near the younger of her two beloved sisters.