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Ryan McPartlin and Mackenzie Cardwell star in this 2024 lifetime crime drama directed by Robin Hays. Set in an Amish community, McPartlin plays Aaron, a community leader who takes in Cardwell’s character Hannah after she’s cast out from her own village.

Hannah agrees to help care for Aaron’s ailing wife Sarah, played by Dana Stoutenburg. But it doesn’t take long for an illicit romance to blossom between Aaron and Hannah, inspiration drawn from the real-life case of Amish man Eli Weaver, who murdered his wife to be with his mistress.

From the start, their relationship is complicated by Aaron’s lies about his wife’s secret condition and his relentless pursuit of Hannah despite her refusals. Just as she starts to build a life in her new home, Sarah suddenly passes away under suspicious circumstances.

Hannah then finds herself the prime suspect in Sarah’s death as rumor and gossip spread.

Lifetime presents Amish Affair, an original movie premiere that airs on Saturday, July 6, 2024, at 8:00 Pm. The movie stars Mackenize Cardwell as Hannah, a young woman who finds herself entangled in a web of desire, deceit, and murder within an Amish community. Hannah, portrayed by Cardwell, leaves her Amish community and finds refuge […]

Amish Affair Movie Premiere on Lifetime, Saturday, July 6, 2024...

Ryan McPartlin smolders in Lifetime’s “Ripped from the Headlines” movie Amish Affair. The heartthrob plays Aaron, who on the surface is this pillar in the Amish community. He brings in Hannah (Mackenzie Cardwell) to care for his ailing wife and help with family chores around the house. Wholesome sounding enough until you’re reminded this is a Lifetime movie. Things get intimate between employer and employee until Hannah decides to end the affair amid mounting guilt. Aaron does not take it well, especially when she develops eyes for another. When his wife dies, investigators find foul play is at work and Hannah sees herself framed for murder. “Expect the unexpected,” teased McPartlin of the movie. “We tried really hard to take the audience on a journey to root for something they wouldn’t normally root for. Like am I rooting for them to get together? Am I rooting for an affair to actually happen?...

There is no love quite like a forbidden one.

It can be Lifetime's specialty to portray the latest in the summer's Ripped From the Headlines slate, which brings forth scandalous love and murder with the Amish Affair.

It's a win for Ryan McPartlin fans, who will see the heartthrob in a whole new light than his usual fare.

As we've learned with many of these Lifetime films, the Amish community is rife with drama and scandal, just like any other.

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In this instance, Amish Affair tells the story of a young woman who falls desperately in love with an Amish leader only to find herself in the worst position possible.

Amid their affair, her beau's ailing wife dies, and suddenly, it's a matter of who could be responsible for her murder with only one suspect in mind.