My description …
Ever feel like a square peg being forced into a round hole? That’s Barbara. Her mother is a quilter. Her grandmother is a quilter and by George — BARBARA IS GOING TO QUILT *AND* BE A GOOD QUILTER! Oh, her mother is not shouting but she might as well. Her parents send her to Indiana for the summer. Her task? Help her grandmother in her quilting shop. The Indiana community is different than her reserved Kentucky one. The difference? Understanding grandparents and a young Amish man (unmarried, of course) who has a landscaping business.
Category: Amish
Books where the Amish are a key part of the story.
An Evil Heart by Linda Castillo
My description …
What kind of heart does a person have to kill an Amish man on his way to work? To brutally kill. To escalate the brutality. No wonder the title of this book is An Evil Heart. Another in the Kate Burkholder series.
An Amish Mother for His Child by Patricia Johns
Description in my words …
» Adam Lantz is looking for the ideal & proper (I think he really meant perfect) Amish woman to be a mother to his child.
» Community matchmaker, Adel Knussli, had set up the marriage of two strangers.
» Verna Kauffman, age 30, wanted a family & was willing to marry Adel’s chosen man for her.
Verna learns after the marriage Adam’s childcare rules. Plus, his strict standards on almost everything. And that his demeanor was very, VERY formal. Can these two create a home for the little girl? A home for both adults which has a comfortable atmosphere. A loving home?
Her Amish Patchwork Family by Winnie Griggs
Two people who are struggling to feel comfortable in their new circumstances. Martha Eicher took care of her widowed father & two sisters. Now all are married and she no longer feels enjoyable living with her dad and new wife. Even her best friend is getting married in a week. She feels like a fish out of water. Asher Lantz, a bachelor, now father to his niece & three nephews, is struggling to balance taking care of the farm, workshop AND four preschoolers.
Asher needs someone to take care of the children and his home. Martha needs to move away from home. And you guessed it, Martha steps in to help. Asher feels awkward … until he doesn’t.
Family Gatherings at Promise Lodge by Charlotte Hubbard
In the small-town Missouri setting of Promise Lodge, widower Lester Lehman is finally doing so much better. His life has found purpose. He lives in a *real* lakeside tiny house. But there are these two Amish ladies who decide they need a man — they want Lester! That alone makes for some comedy. Both of those women are so — to me it was more important for each to beat the other one — Lester was just icing on the cake.
New to the Promise Lodge community, Marlene Fisher is protective (for good reasons) of her grown brother Mose. She has dealt with several men and none of it ended well. But Lester … he’s different and she finds in Lester, a friend. Both of them need the friendship that grown. But will it grow into more?
The Amish Christmas Promise by Amy Lillard
Mattie Byler is Amish, a young widow, and mother of two. And she is pregnant. The last thing she expected when she opened the door was to stare at her dead husband’s face. Samuel Byler. Her husband’s twin brother. His shunned twin brother. No one had heard from him in years. Why was he here?
Samuel had no plans to return to his community after being in the Englisher world until he read about David’s death. He was there to marry Mattie; he had promised his brother. And like a bull in a china shop, he tells Mattie he is there to marry her. He is carrying a lot of baggage. And his blurted announcement is not well received by Mattie. The book is tagged as ‘An Uplifting Inspirational Romance’.