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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...

Caught up in a scandal in her Amish community, Phoebe Miller moves to her cousin’s farm in Delaware hoping for forgiveness and a second chance. The last thing Phoebe expects is to slowly fall for bachelor Joshua Miller. But Joshua doesn’t know the secret that made her leave her old life behind. Can their blossoming love survive the truth?

It’s 1930. Nola Levitt has more than most, living with her family and working in her parents’ general store in Nazareth, Iowa. She can’t risk marrying and having a family they can’t support in these depressing times. With no joy in his heart after losing everything, including his parents, and having to drop out of medical school after the stock market crash, Jerome Walcott has come to Nazareth to care for his uncle and run his drug store/pharmacy during the man’s lengthy recovery from serious injuries sustained in a car wreck. He doesn’t count on having a lovely storekeeper’s ...

*Previously published in The Duke's Christmas Greetings.* Anthony Carew, Earl of Bexley, is the unwitting object of scandal when his betrothed elopes with another man. While Bexley is all too happy to return to a quiet life of farming, his formidable grandmother, along with her brother, the Duke of Danby, have different plans. To quiet gossip and fulfill his duty as the eldest son, he must find a wife, and soon. * Shy Rosamond Hughes has secretly been in love with Bexley’s younger brother for years, and she is encouraged by his sisters to sweep the wandering younger son off his feet when ...

He thinks she's a maid. She thinks he's a penniless poet. ‘Tis the season for a misunderstanding! Julian Knight cannot believe his luck. Meeting his literary hero is a dream come true, but spending a month in the fellow’s home is bliss. A few weeks away from his life of ledgers and finances to bask in their shared love of poetry and hone his skill at the feet of a master. It couldn’t be more perfect…Until he mistakes their eldest daughter for the maid. Now, the lady is determined to make the holidays uncomfortable for him. There must be a way to get back into her good graces!

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it Lydia Lang is in charge of preserving her town’s artifacts, but she’s spent eight years trying to forget her own past with Max Wagner. When he shows up during the holidays, she fights the old feelings that never died. The luster has worn off Max’s film making career, and reel life in California can’t compare to the real life he left behind. A special project gives him a second chance with Lydia. He can’t miss his cue again.

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, ...

Naomi Miller is twenty-six, unmarried, and very tired of being everyone’s favorite example of “there’s still time, dear.” She’s resigned herself to a life of caring for her parents and sewing quilts in their small Amish community—until her sharp-eyed Großmamm decides she’s waited long enough. With Christmas approaching, Großmamm quietly hatches a plan: twenty-five days of “accidental” pairings between Naomi and her widowed neighbor, Levi King. Firewood deliveries that mysteriously require two people. Choir benches rearranged so Naomi and Levi sit side by side. A charity ...

She came home for Christmas with a swollen belly, an Englisch baby, and no right to ask for mercy. During rumspringa, Salome Beiler thought she’d found love and freedom with a charming outsider. Instead, she returns to her quiet Amish district alone, unwed, and expecting. The bishop’s discipline is gentle but firm, the gossip is sharp, and even her own family struggles to look her in the eye. Salome knows she’s broken every rule that mattered. All she can cling to now is a fragile prayer that her child will be welcomed, even if she is not. Micah King has loved Salome quietly for years...

When good intentions get tangled, the only fitting answer is mercy made practical. When Hannah Zook finds two cast-iron skillets in her hope chest and her cherished hand‑pieced Snow Star quilt gone, she chooses prayerful patience over panic. Soon the schoolhouse basement overflows with baskets—a stack of gifts meant for December brides across Maple Glen. A weary volunteer’s good intentions have turned gifts into a tangle—until Hannah, the quiet seamstress, and Daniel Stoltzfus, a steady woodworker, pair a ledger and colored thread to translate the hidden message. Threads of a ...

She escaped with a suitcase, a sleeping child, and one desperate prayer. Coming home is only the beginning. Miriam Esh left her Amish community at nineteen, chasing love and independence with a charming Englisch man. Nine years later, the charm has curdled into control. Derek watches her phone, her money, her every move. One terrifying night makes it clear he will never change. Heart pounding, Miriam packs a bag, wakes her four-year-old daughter, and drives through the dark toward the only safe place she can imagine: the farm she once vowed never to return to. Ella remembers nothing of the ...

When Hope Beiler got baptized into her community, she knew that she was committing to the Amish faith for life. It worked out well for her. She enjoys her life in the community, even if she finds she has little time for herself. With a large family and triplets only six years old, she spends much time helping her parents. She finally speaks up when she realizes that the only way she might be able to court anyone successfully at this rate is to move communities. She would hate to move so far away just to have a chance at having a familye of her own. When she starts to court Paul Schrock – ...

Charity Baxter is trapped in a cage of her own making. After being the tyrant of society for years, she fell from grace—and fell hard. Now, she is overlooked at the best of times and openly despised at the worst of it. Though troubles have a way of changing a person for the better, no matter how she tries to repair her reputation, no one is willing to believe her change of heart. And matters are only made worse when an irritating naval officer appears in town, determined to pester her. Odious man! Why can he not leave her be?

A widower ought to mourn his wife, yet Hamilton Baxter feels only relief after her passing. After enduring thirty years in a miserable marriage, he is finally free to spend his days hidden in a library. But when his son begs for his help distracting his sweetheart’s diligent chaperone, Baxter can’t help but agree—only to discover that the spinster aunt is too appealing for his good.

Two years after losing his wife, Jonah Stoltzfus has learned how to survive—but not how to live. His modest Amish home runs on half-finished chores and take-what-you-can-get suppers. His children are quiet when they should be laughing. When Advent arrives and the bishop’s wife worries Jonah is taking on too much, she asks Mary Yoder—Jonah’s late wife’s cousin and the most capable woman in the district—to quietly oversee his Christmas commitments. Mary has spent years helping Jonah’s family from the edges: baking when they’re overwhelmed, mending when clothes wear thin, ...

Susan Troyer likes Tobias Miller, but not enough to marry him as her father wishes. As Christmas nears, Susan travels to stay with her cousin, Eleanor, who is expecting a baby, enjoying a break from a pressured courtship with Tobias.

Karin Arthur meets her Christmas Eve blind date and stumbles on a battle to save covert agents and stop a cybercriminal. Reference librarian Karin Arthur decides Murali Nanda is handsome, intelligent, and passionate about Christian causes she also loves. But she's only known him through his online research projects. Turmoil descends when Karin and Murali plunge into a plot to torture and murder espionage operatives and disseminate a computer infection that could bring vital intelligence agencies to their knees. A courtship beyond whirlwind and a desperate race to stop a cyberkiller leaves ...

One quiet bell. One small missing handful. One town determined to mend, not shame. When the Market Christmas Fund runs a little light, Mary Yoder trusts the Ordnung more than rumor and counts again—only to find a pattern: tiny shortfalls at noon and sundown. The solution is not a showdown but a stitch. With careful ledgering, a marked coin, and the gentle wisdom of Elder Amos, Mary and Jonah King trace the trail toward a family in need and choose restoration over punishment. Buggy Bells at Christmas is a heartwarming, faith-forward small‑town Amish holiday romance that celebrates slow...

What if Darcy didn't abysmally propose marriage in Hunsford, but a courtship instead? Thus begins The Courtship... Darcy embarks on asking Elizabeth to enter into an official courtship with him—but when she refuses him angrily, he gets angry too, and he not only tells her why he meddled in Bingley's affairs, but also why Wickham was never one to be trusted, either. Elizabeth is astonished into silence at his angry outburst, but before she can find the words to reply, he's gone. While Elizabeth is mortified at her apparent errors in judgment, Darcy is mortified at his own lack of composure...