The Farmer’s Christmas Guest

A Sweet Second Chance Amish Holiday Romance

By: Shel Mabel

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

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 strength makes her battered heart ache in ways she didn’t expect.

As Advent unfolds, Emma is pulled into the rhythm of Eli’s world—baking for shut-ins, rehearsing lines for the school Christmas program, visiting neighbors by lantern light. Gossip in the district whispers about “the Englisch woman with the widower,” and Emma knows her place here is supposed to be temporary. Her car will be fixed. The roads will clear. She’s meant to drive away.

But every day she stays, the decision gets harder.

When Christmas Eve forces Emma to choose between the fragile old life waiting for her and the simple, steady love growing under Eli’s roof, she must decide where her heart truly belongs—and whether a broken road and a broken heart can become the start of a brand-new path.

The Farmer’s Christmas Guest is a standalone novel in the Amish Hearts series—a sweet second chance Amish holiday romance filled with cozy farmhouse moments, children’s laughter, gentle Christian faith, and a tender Christmas happily-ever-after.