Plot Synopsis

Sequel to Hallmark Channel's original movie, "The Shunning." Based on the novel by Beverly Lewis. Katie Lapp is an innocent young Amish woman who has ventured out of her small Lancaster community for the first time after a painful incident led to her shunning from the very township that raised her. As she takes on the unfamiliar outside world, she is desperate to track down her birth mother, a wealthy and generous woman named Laura Mayfield-Bennett who is sadly dying of cancer. With only a few months to live, Laura and her husband Dylan prepare her estate and will. When Dylan, a greedy gambling addict, finds out he will inherit close to nothing from his wife, he hires an out-of-work actress, Alyson, to feign as Laura's long-lost Amish daughter. He hopes Laura will take the bait and leave her entire estate to her only child. Believing her daughter has finally returned to comfort her in her last days, she welcomes Alyson into her home at the same time the real Katie finally arrives at her door. Soon, a case of mistaken identity and the unexpected return of Katie's mysteriously missing Amish boyfriend, leads Laura to the cruel conclusion of betrayal and long-kept secrets. But the family's true faith in love eventually heals her wounded heart.