Amish English Love

Seven former best friends reunite and struggle to heal after the tragic death of one of their own in this evocative and heartrending novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Gift and Her Secret. When word had gotten out that Andy Warner had committed suicide, everyone in Walnut...

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.

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 . . .

War correspondent Jennie King thinks she's just a temporary guest in her grandmother's Amish community while she recuperates from the devastating injuries sustained in a car-bomb attack that changed her world. But when she meets Matthew Bontrager, the man she had a crush on as a teenager, she wonders if God has a new plan for her.

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.

This charming and gentle Christmas love story in the “swoon-worthy” (Woman’s World) Berlin Bookmobile series follows a librarian determined to help an Amish bachelor woo his neighbor. A solitary sort, forty-two-year-old Atle Petersheim spends his time hard at work in his wood shop. But as...

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.

FALLING FOR THE AMISH RIVAL On the farm, they’re enemies… On paper, they’re falling in love. Amanda Stoltzfus would love to get married, but most Amish men aren’t interested in a woman who prefers farmwork to housework. Good thing her secret pen pal L.D. values her for who she is, unlike...

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.

Traveling to a rugged country to meet her new husband for the first time, Bessie wonders, Can love truly conquer fear? Bessie Randall is shocked to discover that, thanks to her sister’s meddling, she is married by proxy to Jasper Mendenhall, a man she’s never met. Believing she has no choice...

Empty-nesters Levina Lapp and her husband Naaman have no children under their roof for the first time in 30 years. When Naaman leaves to visit cousins in Ohio, Levina never expected him to be gone a year. Now that he's back, will they be able to move beyond this estrangement and rekindle the...

The year is 1777. America is in turmoil. And Amish life is far different than today. Pennsylvania in the late 18th century, once called William Penn’s Woods, was an assortment of different faiths living together for the first time in American history. Included in this tapestry was a small and...

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.

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.

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.

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.

The first in this “book lover’s dream” (Carla Laureano, author of Under Scottish Stars) series from the New York Times bestselling author of The Loyal One follows a bookmobile driver-turned-matchmaker as she discovers that her Amish patrons need a whole lot more than just something to read...

New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray returns to the charming and evocative Walnut Creek Series with “this sweet Amish love story” (Woman’s World) following one broken young woman whose search for peace leads her back to her hometown, where she rediscovers...

After a son does the unthinkable, how can a mother go on? On October 2, 2006, a gunman entered an Amish one-room schoolhouse, shooting 10 girls, killing five, then finally taking his own life. This is his mother's story. Not only did she lose her precious son through suicide, but she also lost her understanding of him as an honorable man. It was a trauma that no one should ever have to face.