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She chose the safe man and let the other one go. Fifty years later, the last coach of the season brought him back.
Salome Beachy has spent a lifetime being the sensible one. She runs the Sand Dollar. She stitches the wedding quilt for every couple in Sabal Landing. And when her hands ache too badly to hold a needle, she hides it — because a woman her age has no business complaining, and even less business wanting.
Then a gray-haired widower comes down the coach steps, and Sal goes still.
Amos Zook was a leather-maker's boy with a bad farm and eighty dollars to his name the autumn she married steady Willis Beachy and his two hundred acres. Amos left without a fight. Now, half a century on, he has come south with a leather bench, an empty house behind him, and one sentence he never said.
But Sal's hands are failing, one stitch at a time. There is a wedding quilt she promised that may be the last thing they ever finish. And wanting Amos now feels like foolishness — vanity, a burden she has no right to lay on any man.
She let herself be chosen once, by the safe one. Now she has to decide the thing she has never believed a woman her age is allowed to decide — whether she is still allowed to be chosen by the right one.
A tender, closed-door coastal Amish romance about second chances, stubborn hands, and being wanted at any age. A complete standalone with a heart-warming happily-ever-after — read it in any season, in any order.
Genre: Romance
Salome Beachy has spent a lifetime being the sensible one. She runs the Sand Dollar. She stitches the wedding quilt for every couple in Sabal Landing. And when her hands ache too badly to hold a needle, she hides it — because a woman her age has no business complaining, and even less business wanting.
Then a gray-haired widower comes down the coach steps, and Sal goes still.
Amos Zook was a leather-maker's boy with a bad farm and eighty dollars to his name the autumn she married steady Willis Beachy and his two hundred acres. Amos left without a fight. Now, half a century on, he has come south with a leather bench, an empty house behind him, and one sentence he never said.
But Sal's hands are failing, one stitch at a time. There is a wedding quilt she promised that may be the last thing they ever finish. And wanting Amos now feels like foolishness — vanity, a burden she has no right to lay on any man.
She let herself be chosen once, by the safe one. Now she has to decide the thing she has never believed a woman her age is allowed to decide — whether she is still allowed to be chosen by the right one.
A tender, closed-door coastal Amish romance about second chances, stubborn hands, and being wanted at any age. A complete standalone with a heart-warming happily-ever-after — read it in any season, in any order.
Genre: Romance
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