Amish Child

She broke their rules and left. Now she's back, but someone wants her gone for good. Recently widowed Zipporah Anderson returns to Paradise Valley with her daughter, desperate for the Amish community's forgiveness. Instead, she finds stolen goods planted on her property and whispers that follow her every move. Dairy farmer Samuel Yoder sees through the lies, defending her when the community turns suspicious. As children fall sick and only Zipporah's healing knowledge can save them, her hidden enemy grows desperate to drive her away. When her English past demands her return, will Zipporah ...

***FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED*** A selfish teenager. A reckless decision. A wounded heart. Kylie Brown should never have returned to the Amish. Eva and Jacob Zook are shocked when foster child Kylie returns to the Amish community. But she is clearly in trouble, and in need of help, so the Zooks have no choice but to temporarily take her in. Wary and concerned about allowing the girl back into their home, the Zooks must look to God to guide their decision. Isaac King was astonished when he learned that his best friend, the girl he thought he would marry, had returned to his community. ...

She is certain no man will ever choose her. He is certain he can never love again. Neither of them counted on three motherless children. Anna Mae Lapp is twenty-six, plain, and resigned. Jilted years ago and past the age her district expects a woman to wed, she has made her peace with a small, quiet life. Keeping her aging parents’ house and stitching wedding quilts for brides who will never be her was her future. So when she is hired as maud to a grieving widower for the harvest season, she expects nothing more than honest work and a fair wage. Stephen Fisher is drowning. Fourteen months...

Her hands heal everyone but herself. Now, a stranger's desperate need is breaking through her walls. Independent midwife Leah Beiler has devoted two years to proving herself worthy of her grandmother's healing legacy. When an Ohio newcomer arrives with mysteriously dying cattle, her herbal knowledge is his last hope for survival. David Hochstetler came to Lancaster for a fresh start. His cattle's illness threatens everything he has left. The community's healer holds salvation, yet working with her risks both their reputations when whispers spread. As summer fever strikes the district's ...

For Amish widower Phillip Baker, providing for his family in the wake of his wife's death means back-breaking work and renewed dedication to his faith. Still, his strength can't help him relate to his little son's struggles. It seems a godsend when new doctor Emily White is able to treat Gabe's shyness and fear even as she helps heal him. But no matter how strongly Phillip is drawn to the caring Englisher from the city, their differences may be too great to overcome....

When Misty was six years old, her family started to live and dress like the Amish. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch where they were subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence. When Misty reached her teens, her parents feared she and her sister would escape and took them to an Amish community where they were adopted and became baptized members. Misty was devastated to once again find herself in a world of fear, animal cruelty, and sexual abuse. 

She stepped in to help him with orphaned twins. But he's about to lose them forever... Deborah Lantz arrives at Abel King's snowbound farm when six-month-old twins desperately need care. Her heart condition has convinced her that marriage and children are not for her—until two babies change everything. Their parents are gone, their Amish uncle overwhelmed, and winter threatens their survival. Abel carries crushing guilt over his estranged sister Rebecca's death. Now her twins depend on him while English relatives circle like vultures, demanding custody through courts that favor wealth ...

Twelve year old Lexi Remington has a Christmas wish: to get out of foster care and be adopted. She gets it into her head that she can take the place of Matthew Yoder, her shunned Amish neighbor, and be part of the huge Yoder clan. A stray white dog, fixing a manger set with her foster dad, and a homeless man all show Lexi an important lesson about the love of God...which prepares her heart for the biggest Christmas surprise ever.

A FAMILY FOR THE AMISH ORPHANS An unexpected arrangement might lead to a forever home… Daryn Yutzy’s three orphaned nieces are now his responsibility—but the Amish bachelor is clueless when it comes to raising little girls, especially one who refuses to speak. When kindhearted food-trailer...

She buried her heart with her husband. Now a stranger's kindness threatens to awaken what she thought was gone forever. Miriam Yoder's buggy wheel shatters on her last chance to reach the market. Without these quilt sales, she'll lose the farm. When widowed carpenter Josiah Troyer stops to help, her young son Eli speaks his first words in two years to a stranger. Josiah fled to Lancaster County to escape the loss of his wife and stillborn son. He's not looking to care again. But Eli's trust and Miriam's fierce independence crack something open in his chest. Storm repairs become daily visits...

Foster child Fiona Nichols is a serial runaway. Now living with the Zook family, her life is filled with love, but also with rules and responsibilities. As Fiona watches Amish teenagers enjoying rumspringa liberties— a freedom denied to her—dissatisfaction escalates. When a trip out of town reveals a curious stranger, Fiona’s restlessness increases and she begins to search for answers to her past. Conrad King is perplexed by the sudden change in Fiona. Believing in his heart that the Amish community is her true home, Conrad hopes they will eventually wed. When he learns that Fiona has...

She’s running from heartbreak. He’s guarding his heart. Can they risk love before it’s too late? After scandal and humiliation forced Anna Schwartz to leave her Indiana community, she’s determined to rebuild her life as the new schoolteacher in Lancaster County. Focused on her students and desperate to prove she belongs, the last thing she expects is to grow close to widowed father Benjamin Miller and his four struggling children. Benjamin vowed never to open his heart again after losing his wife. But Anna’s gentle patience and quiet strength bring healing to his family—and ...

In Love's Dwelling by bestselling and award-winning Amish romance novelist Kelly Irvin, a man and a woman from two different worlds are brought together after a loss but circumstance may not be the only thing that keeps bringing them together. Young Cassie Weaver only wants what is expected of...

She came for shelter. But can she ever truly belong where she was never meant to stay? Pregnant and out of options, Cara Miller arrives in Lancaster County seeking refuge on the Amish farm her father left behind for the English world. Her aunt and uncle cautiously welcome her in, but the quiet world of plain living is nothing like the one she escaped. Widowed and guarded, Noah Lapp has no time for outsiders—especially not an unwed, pregnant Englisher with a complicated past. Yet his daughter is drawn to Cara’s gentle spirit and despite himself, so is he. But whispers travel fast in ...

Did she run away? Has she been kidnapped? Or worse? Detective Benuel Miller has solved other crimes. But when his eleven-year-old daughter, Susanna, doesn’t come home after school one day, and her pony cart returns without her, he’s baffled. After Susanna’s mamm died five years ago, Benuel and his daughter worked as a tight-knit team. She served as his eyes, his driver, and his partner in solving crimes. Now, though, Benuel has remarried, and Susanna’s stepmother, Mari, has taken over those roles. Although Mari tries to include her, Susanna can’t help feeling left out. When she ...

Emma never planned to spend Christmas stranded in an Amish farmhouse with a widower and his two children. A broken-down car, an empty bank account, and a December snowstorm leave Englisch Emma with nowhere to go. The small-town mechanic and the bishop’s wife arrange a temporary solution: a spare room in the farmhouse of Eli King, a quiet Amish widower still finding his footing after loss. Emma expects awkward silences and strict rules. Instead she finds flour-dusted kitchens, dawn chores, wide-eyed children who desperately want Christmas to feel normal again… and a man whose gentle ...

Three plain travelers. One lost daughter. A Christmas journey into the heart of New York City. Years ago, Lydia Stoltzfus ran from her strict Amish life toward the glittering promise of the Englisch world. She hasn’t written home since. Now, at twenty-one and heavily pregnant, she finds herself alone in a noisy city apartment, clutching a part-time job, a pile of unpaid bills, and a heart full of regret. The baby’s father has moved on. The skyscrapers that once felt exciting now crowd in like cold stone walls. Back in Lancaster County, a worn letter finally arrives. Lydia is alive, ...

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An unexpected arrangement might lead to a forever home… Daryn Yutzy’s three orphaned nieces are now his responsibility—but the Amish bachelor is clueless when it comes to raising little girls, especially one who refuses to speak. When kindhearted food-trailer owner Carrie Detweiler coaxes...

She teaches children to find their voices. His daughter hasn’t spoken in a year. Alma Riehl has been the Sycamore Bend schoolteacher for eight years. She is patient, perceptive, and quietly content with her life—or so she tells herself. At thirty and unmarried, she has made peace with the fact that the men in her community see the schoolteacher, not the woman. Then Niles Kauffman enrolls his seven-year-old daughter mid-term. Effie hasn’t spoken a word since her mother died. She carries a sketchbook everywhere and watches the world with wide, knowing eyes. Niles is gruff, impatient, ...