The Pairing She Prayed For
(2026)(The first book in the Amish Wedding Season series)
A Story by Hannah Schrock
For ten years, she has loved him in silence. One wedding could change everything.
Barbara King has always been the quiet one. The girl behind the egg table at market who nobody looks at twice. And that suits her fine, because it means nobody sees her watching Willis Troyer.
He pulled her from Miller's Pond when she was twelve. She has loved him ever since.
But the whole district knows whom Willis will marry. The mothers settled it years ago: Lydia Stoltzfus and eleven acres of good bottom land along the creek. All it wants is the asking.
Then Barbara's dearest friend reminds her of an old wedding custom. At the supper, the bride chooses the pairings, and nobody may say one word against them.
So Barbara does the boldest thing she has ever done. She asks.
The evening at the couples' table turns into a buggy ride home, and a buggy ride turns into something neither of them expected. But Willis's mother has plans of her own, and Bertha Troyer never has to raise her voice to get her way.
When a dead man's wish is laid between them, how can Barbara ask Willis to choose her over his own father?
A tender, heartwarming Amish romance about quiet courage, family expectations, and the love worth reaching for.
Genre: Romance
Barbara King has always been the quiet one. The girl behind the egg table at market who nobody looks at twice. And that suits her fine, because it means nobody sees her watching Willis Troyer.
He pulled her from Miller's Pond when she was twelve. She has loved him ever since.
But the whole district knows whom Willis will marry. The mothers settled it years ago: Lydia Stoltzfus and eleven acres of good bottom land along the creek. All it wants is the asking.
Then Barbara's dearest friend reminds her of an old wedding custom. At the supper, the bride chooses the pairings, and nobody may say one word against them.
So Barbara does the boldest thing she has ever done. She asks.
The evening at the couples' table turns into a buggy ride home, and a buggy ride turns into something neither of them expected. But Willis's mother has plans of her own, and Bertha Troyer never has to raise her voice to get her way.
When a dead man's wish is laid between them, how can Barbara ask Willis to choose her over his own father?
A tender, heartwarming Amish romance about quiet courage, family expectations, and the love worth reaching for.
Genre: Romance
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