A short novella-length prequel to the bestselling The Amish Bonnet Sisters series.
Find out what happened to Wilma before she got married and had her six daughters.
What readers are saying about the series:
★★★★★ This entire series is absolutely enthralling.
★★★★★ I couldn't put them down!
★★★★★ The interwoven story of the family members is extremely compelling.
★★★★★ You won't want to put it down!
This series is one that should be read in order, starting with book #1 Amish Mercy.
Will love conquer all this Christmas?
The very day Adam Fisher decided to propose to Charity, a disturbing letter arrived that made him doubt everything Charity had told him.
Adam and his family had brought Charity into their hearts and their lives.
Was it all a lie? Most disturbingly, he'd even trusted her to look after his daughter.
Charity had fallen on hard times and had learned to seize opportunities. This time, has she taken things too far?
Will it take a child to show these two lonely hearts the true meaning of love, forgiveness, and... Christmas?
A Sweet Final Chapter to the Bjorklund Family Saga After several years of widowhood and hard work, Ingeborg Bjorklund has reached a place of contentment with her life. She enjoys watching Blessing, North Dakota, thrive and grow, filled not only with her extended family, but also newcomers like David Gould. Though a high-society businessman from New York City, David has become a dear friend. But how should she handle the ways their relationship seems to be changing? Meanwhile, her son Thorliff is raising two children alone, still grieving the loss of his beloved Elizabeth. He is surprised, therefore, by the effect the new schoolteacher, Louisa Gutenberg, has on him. But would his feelings stay the same if he knew the real reason she visits her sister most weekends? With Blessing advancing forward, Thorliff decides to gather the stories of Ingeborg's life, and subsequently the history of the town, into a book. But with every glimpse into the past, Ingeborg will have to decide if her settled, predictable life is worth more to her than a future she hardly dares to imagine.
How does the band Bleu Streak celebrate the holidays? By singing, of course. Go on tour with this zany group as they get into all kinds of mischief along the way.Oh…And Maverick King? Oh yeah. This devilishly handsome drummer gets a special gift for Christmas. The trouble is trying to convince Izzy Walker to allow him to have her…
Schools out for Summer!Time to hit the California beach for a Bleu Streak Tour with new band mate Will Bleu!While the typical shenanigans continue on as usual, lead guitarist and prankster, Maxim King finds himself on an abandoning ride of self-doubt. Can the charismatic musician figure out an exit before completely abandoning the life he worked so hard for, as well as losing the love of an exceptional woman?“If chemistry were enough to fix my stupidity… ‘Cause, baby, we've got that in spades.”“Sounds like song lyrics to me.” She leaned up and pressed one final kiss to his lips.
A woman gets arrested for the murder of her friend based on flimsy evidence. Then the murdered woman returns and leaves solid evidence as well as hints with various people, including a hard-nosed detective and his solicitor friend, who finally put their doubts aside. An international drug ring is broken up with the help of a naughty ghost, and the lives of all involved are changed irrevocably.
Best-selling author Judith Miller sets this compelling novel in 1917 Iowa. With the Great War fueling anti-German hysteria, agents of President Wilson's Council of National Defense threaten to disfigure Jutta Schmidt, torch her family's bakery, and butcher her parents unless she returns to the Amana colonies as their spy. Back in South Amana, she's befriended by Ilsa Redlich and her family. But if she overhears antiwar remarks, how can she betray these kind people?
Catherine Whitfield is sure that she will never again be able to trust anyone in the medical profession after the town doctor's excessive bleeding treatments killed her mother. Despite her loneliness and her broken heart, she carries bravely on as Cimarron Creek's dutiful schoolteacher, resigned to a life without love or family, a life where dreams rarely come true.Austin Goddard is a newcomer to Cimarron Creek. Posing as a rancher, he fled to Texas to protect his daughter from a dangerous criminal. He's managed to keep his past as a surgeon a secret. But when Catherine Whitfield captures his heart, he wonders how long he will be able to keep up the charade.
Magnus MacLeish and Lark MacDougall grew up together on the same castle grounds, but Magnus is now the laird of the great house and the Isle of Kerrera while Lark tends to his bees. When Magnus finds that his wife has trouble bearing an heir, he goes to Lark to request a tincture that might help his ailing wife conceive. When his wife suddenly dies, Lark finds herself on the run, accompanied by Magnus, after a whirlwind of accusations expelled them from their beloved island. After running towards a life of indentured servitude in the New World, Lark and Magnus find that maybe this is a chance for a new beginningÄîtogether.
Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. This new novel from the award-winning author of the Booker Prize short-listed The Dark Room tells of the three days that follow and the lives that are overturned in the process.
Penned in with his fellow Jews, under threat of deportation, Ephraim anxiously awaits word of his two sons, missing since daybreak.
Come in search of her lover, to fetch him home again, away from the invaders, Yasia must confront new and harsh truths about those closest to her.
Here to avoid a war he considers criminal, German engineer Otto Pohl is faced with an even greater crime unfolding behind the lines, and no one but himself to turn to.
And in the midst of it all is Yankel, a boy determined to survive this. But to do so, he must throw in his lot with strangers.
As their stories mesh, each of Rachel Seiffert's characters comes to know the compromises demanded by survival, the oppressive power of fear, and the possibility of courage in the face of terror.
Rich with a rare compassion and emotional depth, A Boy in Winter is a story of hope when all is lost and of mercy when the times have none.
The Minnesota frontier is nothing like Nilda Carlson imagined. After a terrifying experience in a lumber camp, she finds a safe job helping a young widow. When she meets Fritz, she is initially uninterested in his overtures. But as he begins to win her over, would loving him mean abandoning her goals--or simply exchanging one dream for a different one? Nilda Carlson has been trying to save enough money to go to America for months, so when a letter arrives, with an offer to pay her passage, she jumps at the chance. Her younger brother Ivar accompanies her, and they are thrilled to join older brother Rune and his family in the northern forests of Minnesota. But America is not everything Nilda imagined. A terrifying experience in a lumber camp shakes Nilda's confidence and trust in men, but a job helping a young widow raise her children and run her farm gives her a chance to build her own life. When she meets Fritz, the children's schoolteacher, she is initially unimpressed and uninterested. His kindness and passion for learning begin to win her over, but how can she sacrifice her dreams for the future for a man she's still not sure of?
Abandoned by his mail-order bride, Silas Jonesey has fought an uphill battle to recover from a pattern of poor choices. Now his prayers for reconciliation have finally come true and his estranged wife has contacted him with her whereabouts.
Kate Dawson was supposed to be a mail-order bride, but upon realizing she'd been deceived about her intended groom, she's now settled into life as a schoolteacher. When the mother of a student passes away, Kate assumes she'll take on care of nine-year-old Anthony--until two men suddenly show up in town, claiming to be the boy's father.
Silas can see Anthony loves Kate, so he enlists her help in reaching out to the boy and attempting to prove his paternity to the court. When a common interest in Anthony leads to an interest in each other and Silas and Kate begin to think they can overcome their rocky start, neither is prepared for the secrets and past hurts that have yet to come to light. Can Silas, Kate, and Anthony's wounded souls bind them together or will all that stands between them leave them lonely forever?
