But their reunion is complicated because her mother’s husband, who has a gambling addiction, has hired an actress to pose as his wife’s Amish daughter! Knowing that his wife has cut him off from her family’s money, his plan is to have her sign it over to her fake daughter, who will then give it to him when his wife dies.

In The Confession, Katie heads to New York to finally connect with the woman who gave birth to her. Now that Katie’s on the brink of marrying an Amish man, her birth mother, who has terminal cancer, seeks out the daughter she gave away. In the first movie, The Shunning, we’re introduced to Katie Lapp, a young Amish woman who discovers that she was adopted at birth by her Amish parents when an unwed teenage mother, an “Englisher” (non-Amish), gave her to them. The second movie is a sequel to the first, but you don’t have to watch the first to understand the second. I received The Confession for review, but was fortunate to be able to catch The Shunning first when it was re-aired on Hallmark right before the debut of The Confession. And they recently aired the second movie in the series, Beverly Lewis' the Confession. A few years ago, they featured The Shunning, which is the first novel in Beverly Lewis’ “The Heritage of Lancaster County” trilogy. So, I was excited to hear that several of her books have been made into movies for the Hallmark Channel. I’m a big fan of the books by Beverly Lewis, which feature characters from Amish communities.

The shunning trilogy