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He came south for one winter with his tools and his daughter. She came to teach for one term. Neither of them came looking for a family.
Lizzie Byler has kept the Landing's schoolroom for eight weeks, and in eight weeks she has been useful enough that nobody has had to ask why she left Pinecraft. She was courted once for her usefulness and set aside for the girl he loved. She does not intend to be useful to anyone that way again.
Then the winter coach brings down Enos Detweiler — an Ohio tinsmith, a widower, and a five-year-old girl carrying her mother's dented lantern.
Enos can mend the lantern in an afternoon. What he cannot mend is himself, and he has no intention of trying — because Ohio is waiting on an answer, and his late wife's family have already decided what that answer ought to be.
The schoolhouse stove is failing, and the Bishop's terms are plain: a Christmas market by Saturday, or the school shuts till thaw and Lizzie goes back up the coast. And on Old Christmas — the sixth of January — the whole village will carry lanterns down the dock in the dark. Enos has promised Ohio he will be gone before then.
Two people who came for a season have until Epiphany to decide whether they are staying, and whether a family can be made out of people who never planned on one.
A tender, closed-door Amish Christmas romance about a single father, a small girl, and the courage to be chosen. A complete standalone with a heart-warming happily-ever-after — read it in any season, in any order.
Genre: Romance
Lizzie Byler has kept the Landing's schoolroom for eight weeks, and in eight weeks she has been useful enough that nobody has had to ask why she left Pinecraft. She was courted once for her usefulness and set aside for the girl he loved. She does not intend to be useful to anyone that way again.
Then the winter coach brings down Enos Detweiler — an Ohio tinsmith, a widower, and a five-year-old girl carrying her mother's dented lantern.
Enos can mend the lantern in an afternoon. What he cannot mend is himself, and he has no intention of trying — because Ohio is waiting on an answer, and his late wife's family have already decided what that answer ought to be.
The schoolhouse stove is failing, and the Bishop's terms are plain: a Christmas market by Saturday, or the school shuts till thaw and Lizzie goes back up the coast. And on Old Christmas — the sixth of January — the whole village will carry lanterns down the dock in the dark. Enos has promised Ohio he will be gone before then.
Two people who came for a season have until Epiphany to decide whether they are staying, and whether a family can be made out of people who never planned on one.
A tender, closed-door Amish Christmas romance about a single father, a small girl, and the courage to be chosen. A complete standalone with a heart-warming happily-ever-after — read it in any season, in any order.
Genre: Romance
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