Amish English Love

Settling in to her new life in Canaan, Colorado, Katie Ann Stoltzfus gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. This child comes to her late in life following the death of her estranged husband. She resolves to play the role of both father and mother to the child. Ivan was her one true love and despite his infidelities, she mourns his loss and vows never to trust another man. But when a meddling - but good hearted - Englisch woman plays matchmaker for Katie Ann and Eli Detweiler who just arrived in Canaan, they both need to restructure their expectations of the future....

Hattie Schrock's lively optimism makes her the Widows Club's most outgoing member. The circle has helped her through widowhood—and in building a thriving popcorn shop with her cousin. So when Elsie bets Hattie that she can't help Paradise Valley's most cantankerous man learn to be happier, Hattie tackles the challenge head-on. But what can she do when she finds Christian Beachy is far more complicated—and appealing—than she thought?

Danielle Kent is anything but Amish. But as destiny would have it, she has fallen in love with an Amish man. Now she’s 18, pregnant, and hopeful that the child’s Amish father—Matthew Lapp—will do the right thing and marry her. She knows Matthew plans to leave his Colorado settlement for a life in the Englisch world. But that plan never included a baby. When Matthew walks away from her and their unborn child, she has nowhere to turn. Her unlikely friendship with Levi offers some comfort—yet they have so little in common.

Sarah Schuster has always reserved a special place in her heart for Joshua Kaufman. Unfortunately, Joshua's rumspringa seems to be going on indefinitely. With the pool of single Amish men in her community getting smaller by the day, Sarah has to decide how long she's willing to hold out hope for Joshua to come around before she gives another man a try.

In the summer of 1951, 18-year-old Maggie Esh is in need of some hope. Sweet-spirited and uncommonly pretty despite struggling with a debilitating illness, she is accustomed to being treated kindly by the young men of her Old Order Amish church district. Yet no one but Jimmy Beiler ever asks her out, and she always declines, certain he only pities her. To make matters worse, Dat has recently remarried, less than a year after Maggie's mother died. And while her stepmother is kind, she's much younger than Mamm, and she simply doesn't understand Maggie or her illness the way Mamm did.

Elaine Jutzi has a God-given gift—she knows just what to say to someone who is hurting. So surely, she can help her sister, who recently suffered a stillbirth. But things don’t go well. Christina yearns to join her boppli in heaven, and Elaine can’t seem to reach her. And then Elaine’s longtime beau decides to call it quits, thrusting Elaine into her own world of sadness.

Collette Yoder's path hasn't been easy since her husband abandoned her—and she recovered from a near-fatal injury. But now-widowed, she feels blessed to provide for her children, especially when her new job means helping the also newly widowed Bishop Aaron Troyer straighten out his too-busy life. She simply won't let herself hope too much that their friendship could blossom into much, much more . . .

Twenty years ago, Grace's life had shattered when Seth left their Amish community, after Grace had refused to go with him. Although her heart had healed, she had never forgotten Seth. Seth's accident forces him to return to a community that he had left 20 years ago. Shunned and scorned, his heart had never forgotten Grace. When he sees her, old feelings reignite and he prays that Grace has forgiven him for leaving her all those years ago.

This Spring, the Baker Apple Orchard is alive with romance. The sweet smell of apple blossoms fills the air, mingling with the possibilities simmering beneath the surface. Krystal feels on top of the world, excited by a new romance, while Wilma hopes an opportunity may bring her true love. As always, at the orchard, anything could happen.

Lizzie Anne and Samuel have decided to get married, and Lindsay is about to be baptized in the Amish faith and is courting Matthew. While Katie Kauffman is happy for her friends who seem to have settled their futures, she is also finding herself something of a fifth wheel. When Lindsay’s sister Jessica returns to Bird-in-Hand, she finds that Jake Miller has moved on with his life. He lost hope that Jessica would ever be satisfied to settle in rural Pennsylvania and takes comfort in becoming close friends with Katie. However, it’s not an easy road....

All Rebecca wanted was to be happy, and she was for a while. She had married the love of her life, Jacob, but when they discovered they couldn’t have Kinner of their own, things started to fall apart. Becoming more withdrawn from her Mann, she couldn’t help but blame Gott for their predicament. Why did Gott take away such a blessing from them? Jacob wanted his Fraa back. He too wanted Kinner, but who was he to question Gott? Jacob knew that if he could only convince Rebecca, they could be happy regardless, but the more time passed, the more distant between them they grew.

Faced with marriage to a man she doesn’t love, Becca risks alienating her parents when she decides to follow her heart. But she fears heartbreak awaits her as the man she is drawn to refuses to reciprocate her feelings.

In 1959, after reading a heartbreaking plea for medical personnel, Bertha Troyer, a beautiful young Amish woman from Sugarcreek, rebels against church rules and enters nursing school determined to pour out her life on behalf of the desperate children of Haiti. This fourth installment follows Rachel’s beloved aunt, Bertha, back in time to a nightmare of poverty, political unrest, and the fury of nature, as Bertha is forced to make the most agonizing decision of her life in order to protect her people - and the man - she loves.

Seth is a handsome man and he knows it. Whilst he knows pride is a sin, it makes him feel good to be able to tip his hat and see a sparkle in almost any girl's eye. The time is coming soon for him to marry and he knows he could have the pick of anyone in his community, although something has stopped him from entering into any long lasting courtships. The only thing that mars his happy life is his concern over his mother, who struggles with constant pain.

For widow Rose Raber, it's been a year of tragic loss and difficult decisions. She thought providing for her young daughter was the greatest challenge she faced. Until her dying mother revealed that Rose was adopted - and her birth mother is someone with much to lose if the secret comes out. As Rose struggles to reconcile the truth with her faith - and her troubling curiosity - outgoing newcomer Matthias Wagler is another surprise she didn't expect. His optimism and easy understanding inspires her.

Linda Hostetler is engaged to marry handsome Levi Resch, and they are planning a long and happy life together. Then, Linda suffers a tragic bicycle accident. When she wakes up, she can’t remember anything. Not Levi, not her family, nor anything about her past. Englischer Clay Dawson finds Linda at the scene of the accident, and she clings to him as the only familiar person in her life.

Grace Fisher's parents want her to settle down with her best friend, Daniel King. Friends since childhood, Grace and Daniel do not see each other in a romantic light. It is Daniel's cousin, Isaac, now an Englischer, that Grace hopes to court. When Isaac comes back to Lancaster after five years away to spend a few weeks with Daniel's family, Grace prays that she and Isaac can get to know each other better. But when tragedy strikes, Grace encounters a twist of fate which leaves her world turned upside down.

Riddled with doubt and lingering regrets, will Suzanne and Paul find strength in God to explore a second chance at love? It wasn't easy to move back to the Old Order Mennonite community from which quiet, responsible Suzanne Zimmerman was shamefully sent away as a pregnant teen. Returning 20 years later to take care of her mother, Suzanne and Alexa - the daughter she raised as her own - have spent months rebuilding relationships with her family.

All the color and variety of a quaint Amish shop in a charming collection of novellas by four of your favorite authors. Feel free to come in and browse!

An Amish midwife heroically saves a newborn when its mother is killed on Christmas morning. Horrified at where the baby will be placed, she chooses to break the law and hide the infant among her people. Sugarcreek’s best, Officer Rachel Mattias, hunts for the baby’s family, but her investigation takes her to the inner-city streets of Cleveland, where she has to fight through a dark maze of lies, suspicion, gang culture, and an overwhelmed children’s services agency. When two people’s dreams collide, who will win?