Adina Senft grew up in a plain house church, where she was often asked by outsiders if she was Amish (the answer was no), she made her own clothes, and she perfected the art of the French braid. She kicks off her new Amish Quilt trilogy with The Wounded Heart (FaithWords). In the back of each Amish Quilt novel are instructions for the quilt that Amelia, Emma, and Carrie are making throughout the trilogy. “But in order to be sure my instructions worked,” she says, “I had to make the quilt along with them!”