About The Heart of Sugarcreek
With no warning, at eight p.m. on Christmas Eve, the unthinkable happened. Lydia Troyer, Amish innkeeper, and Sugarcreek pie-baker extraordinaire, realized she could not force herself to make even one more pie. Never! And she wasn’t kidding.
Thus began a gray Christmas season as Lydia, long-time owner of the Sugar Haus Inn, decides she is forever done with baking, inn-keeping, and domesticity in general.
Her small rebellion evaporates, however, when a stranger arrives and begs sanctuary during a blizzard. She hesitates, but the inn’s guiding principle is too firmly rooted in her heart to turn anyone away:
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” (Hebrews 13:2)
Once again, the scripture holds true. Lydia’s life, and the lives of all the others, are changed forever because of it.