Some love stories begin with a shy glance across a crowded barn. Others begin with a misunderstanding that takes half a year to mend.
In these four stories you will meet young Amish women with more courage than they know, steady men who speak plainly and love faithfully, and families who hold one another up when the road turns hard.
Every page is clean, gentle, and full of hope. Every ending is one worth waiting for.
Perfect for readers who love sweet courtship, strong faith, and the comfort of a story where kindness always finds its reward.
The collection contains these stories:
Lovina's Grief
Five years ago Lovina Zook's husband and her three-year-old son were taken from her, two hundred yards from her own gate. She has not forgiven the man who did it. Some days she has not forgiven Gott either.
Then an Englisch widower opens a furniture store in town, and his motherless daughter decides Lovina is her friend.
Ben Tucker knows what it is to bury someone. He is willing to give up his car, his business, and the only life he has known to join her people. But he cannot give her the one thing she wants, because nobody can.
Lovina has already worked out the truth, and it frightens her more than her grief ever did. To love this man and his little girl, she would have to become a woman with everything to lose.
Again.
The First Born Amish Daughter
Sarah Apfel was born Amish. At twelve, her parents took their vows back and took her to Cleveland, and nobody came to say goodbye.
Six years later she has a scholarship, a red car, and a future in the business world. Then Noah Yoder walks into the diner: the quiet boy from the pond, a man now, in the city for one month before he goes home and kneels before the church for life.
One month becomes a summer. A summer becomes four years of letters, a lakeshore in November, and a Holmes County kitchen where she reaches for a light switch that isn't there.
Sarah won't ask him to leave. Noah won't ask her to stay. And her mother, who once made a vow for a place instead of for God, knows exactly what that costs.
A Prayer For Abigail
Since the day nine-year-old Abigail held her sister's newborn, she has wanted a houseful of children of her own. She pours that love into other people's children as a teacher's assistant, yet her own arms stay empty while her best friend Elizabeth raises the family Abigail keeps praying for.
When Daniel came into her life, the answer seemed to have arrived at last. Ten years on, Elizabeth is carrying her sixth child and Abigail is carrying nothing but the same unanswered prayer she has whispered since she was a girl.
Bitterness creeps in where faith used to be. Daniel's quiet certainty holds her steady, but it may not hold her much longer.
The Amish Farmer
Wayne Troyer has one summer to save the farm his family has worked for five generations. The bank wants its money by September. All he has is forty acres of corn, a borrowed plow, and a dream of the beautiful girl up the hill.
Sarah King is the other sister. The plain one. The one nobody notices.
She is also the one who shows up every morning with a basket on her arm and dirt on her apron, bringing his dead mother's garden back to life while he chases a woman who is only keeping him waiting.
By the time Wayne learns the difference between the beauty that catches the eye and the beauty that holds the heart, Sarah has taught herself to stop hoping. And the corn is still standing in the field.
Genre: Romance
In these four stories you will meet young Amish women with more courage than they know, steady men who speak plainly and love faithfully, and families who hold one another up when the road turns hard.
Every page is clean, gentle, and full of hope. Every ending is one worth waiting for.
Perfect for readers who love sweet courtship, strong faith, and the comfort of a story where kindness always finds its reward.
The collection contains these stories:
Lovina's Grief
Five years ago Lovina Zook's husband and her three-year-old son were taken from her, two hundred yards from her own gate. She has not forgiven the man who did it. Some days she has not forgiven Gott either.
Then an Englisch widower opens a furniture store in town, and his motherless daughter decides Lovina is her friend.
Ben Tucker knows what it is to bury someone. He is willing to give up his car, his business, and the only life he has known to join her people. But he cannot give her the one thing she wants, because nobody can.
Lovina has already worked out the truth, and it frightens her more than her grief ever did. To love this man and his little girl, she would have to become a woman with everything to lose.
Again.
The First Born Amish Daughter
Sarah Apfel was born Amish. At twelve, her parents took their vows back and took her to Cleveland, and nobody came to say goodbye.
Six years later she has a scholarship, a red car, and a future in the business world. Then Noah Yoder walks into the diner: the quiet boy from the pond, a man now, in the city for one month before he goes home and kneels before the church for life.
One month becomes a summer. A summer becomes four years of letters, a lakeshore in November, and a Holmes County kitchen where she reaches for a light switch that isn't there.
Sarah won't ask him to leave. Noah won't ask her to stay. And her mother, who once made a vow for a place instead of for God, knows exactly what that costs.
A Prayer For Abigail
Since the day nine-year-old Abigail held her sister's newborn, she has wanted a houseful of children of her own. She pours that love into other people's children as a teacher's assistant, yet her own arms stay empty while her best friend Elizabeth raises the family Abigail keeps praying for.
When Daniel came into her life, the answer seemed to have arrived at last. Ten years on, Elizabeth is carrying her sixth child and Abigail is carrying nothing but the same unanswered prayer she has whispered since she was a girl.
Bitterness creeps in where faith used to be. Daniel's quiet certainty holds her steady, but it may not hold her much longer.
The Amish Farmer
Wayne Troyer has one summer to save the farm his family has worked for five generations. The bank wants its money by September. All he has is forty acres of corn, a borrowed plow, and a dream of the beautiful girl up the hill.
Sarah King is the other sister. The plain one. The one nobody notices.
She is also the one who shows up every morning with a basket on her arm and dirt on her apron, bringing his dead mother's garden back to life while he chases a woman who is only keeping him waiting.
By the time Wayne learns the difference between the beauty that catches the eye and the beauty that holds the heart, Sarah has taught herself to stop hoping. And the corn is still standing in the field.
Genre: Romance
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