My Review
One of the best Amish books I've read in a long time! This book has so many layers and we find the story following two Amish couples in their relationships.
The first couple is very young and even though many Amish marry earlier than the Englishers do this couple is young even by their standards. She got pregnant before marriage and they hadn't gotten a chance to know each other well even though they knew each other growing up.
As we mature we change though and now that they are married theirs is a strained relationship barely more than strangers. There is a lot of hurting going on and they both are praying for their relationship to change for the better and strengthen. They both love their daughter very much.
The second couple met through the first young couple. She is widowed and he feels so blessed to have found her and her him. What will happen when she reveals a big secret to him?
Will the power of love keep their relationship strong or will he let the feeling of betrayal sidetrack all the happiness God has brought into
their lives since meeting?
There is also an older woman in the neighborhood that needs help, a homeless woman. Is she as dangerous and mentally unstable as some think? When her secrets become revealed will she be able to get the help she so desperately needs?
I felt so many emotions reading this book and I highly recommend it! Pub Date 07 Apr 2020 I was given a complimentary copy of this book. Thank you. All opinions expressed are my own.
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Can Lydia and Samuel find love in their marriage of convenience? Lydia still can’t believe that she is Mrs. Samuel Bontrager. Or that she is seventeen with a six-month-old daughter. As Baby Mattie grows fussier by the day, Lydia wonders how she will survive a lifetime of marriage to a man she doesn’t love—at least not in the way she wants. Samuel knows that he and Lydia did the right thing by marrying when Lydia became pregnant. He has even grown to love Lydia, though he never seems able to say the words out loud. What if she doesn’t love him back? After all, she pushes him away whenever he tries to draw closer. When Lydia and Samuel introduce their mutual friends Beverly and Joseph to each other, they are as envious as they are delighted to watch their friends fall in love. But just as Samuel thinks Lydia might be softening to him, she gets involved in investigating the mysterious past of a local homeless woman—a curiosity that threatens to drive the couple further apart. The third and final novel in the Amish Journeys series by bestselling author Beth Wiseman explores how wounds from the past must come to light before they can hope to heal.
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Romance, Contemporary
"I wish I had the time to review books and chat with you here, but my writing deadlines just don't allow it. Please like my Fans of Beth Wiseman Page on Facebook where I try to post any news and interact with readers." Beth is the best-selling and award winning author of the Daughters of the Promise series - Plain Perfect, Plain Pursuit, Plain Promise, Plain Paradise, and Plain Proposal. She is contracted with HarperCollins Christian Publishing. Her other series--the Land of Canaan Novels--begins with Seek Me With All Your Heart, then The Wonder of Your Love and now, His Love Endures Forever. Seek Me With All Your Heart is the first Amish fiction book selected as a Women of Faith novel in 2011. Beth has also written three contemporary Christian fiction novels, Need You Now published in 2012 and The House That Love Built in 2013. In The Promise, (2014) Beth jumps way outside the box. This story takes readers far away from Amish Country and small Texas towns to a dangerous place on the other side of the world. Inspired by a true story, Beth believes this is the book she’s been working toward for a long time. 2015 brings Beth back to the Pennsylvania Amish with her new series, Amish Secrets. She is currently working on book #2 following much success with book #1, Her Brother's Keeper.
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