Celebrate the holidays in Amish Country
Heart of Christmas by Marta Perry
Amish teacher Susannah Miller suddenly has two new students: the children of her former love. Widowed father Toby Unger broke Susannah's heart ten years ago, but now the handsome Amish man desperately needs help with his troubled little ones. Can the joy of the season reunite two lonely hearts in time for Christmas?
A Plain Holiday by Patricia Davids
Outspoken nanny Sally Yoder left her Amish community for her rumspringa. Though her heart is back home, the Amish man she loves, Ben Lapp, will never love a bold woman like her. But when a snowstorm strands her, her young charges and Ben on a remote farm at Christmastime, they both might discover that love is the true holiday spirit.
Amish teacher Susannah Miller suddenly has two new students: the children of her former love. Widowed father Toby Unger broke Susannah's heart ten years ago, but now the handsome Amish man desperately needs help with his troubled little ones. Can the joy of the season reunite two lonely hearts in time for Christmas?
Outspoken nanny Sally Yoder left her Amish community for her rumspringa. Though her heart is back home, the Amish man she loves, Ben Lapp, will never love a bold woman like her. But when a snowstorm strands her, her young charges and Ben on a remote farm at Christmastime, they both might discover that love is the true holiday spirit.
About The Authors
Marta Perry realized she wanted to be a writer at age eight, when she read her first Nancy Drew novel. Most girls reached the end of that book wanting to be Nancy. Marta wanted to be the person who created the story.
The
dream lay hidden for years while she pursued other career goals, but
eventually it re-surfaced, and she began to write, beginning with short
children’s stories for Sunday school take-home papers. After seeing
hundreds of her short stories published in a variety of magazines, Marta
finally started work on the novel she’d always wanted to write.
Fifty-some published novels later, she still feels the same excitement
when she begins a new book.A lifetime spent in rural Pennsylvania and her own Pennsylvania Dutch roots led Marta to the books she writes now about the Amish. The Pleasant Valley Amish series from Berkley Books are longer, more complex emotional stories with Amish main characters, while the Amish Suspense series from HQN Books are more adventure-filled books set in Pennsylvania Amish country. She also continues to write for Love Inspired Books.
Marta lives with her husband in a century-old farmhouse in the Pennsylvania countryside, but spends winters at their vacation home in South Carolina. When she’s not writing, she’s active in the life of her church and enjoys traveling and spending time with her three children and six beautiful grandchildren.
Patricia Davids is an award winning author of more than 20 Inspirational and Amish romance novels. Her book, A Home for Hannah, won the Romantic Times Review's Choice Award for Best Love Inspired Novel of 2012. She was a finalist in the Review's Choice Awards and the National Reader's Choice Awards in 2011. She has sold nearly 2,000,000 books world-wide since her debut novel in 2006.
Born and raised in central
Kansas, Patricia has found a way to combine her Midwest values and sense
of humor into emotionally rich novels that deal with contemporary
subjects. Her Amish novels have become increasingly popular with readers
who are looking for stories with a bit of nostalgia, a sweet romance,
and a measure of faith in our turbulent world. Patricia currently
resides with her family and her dog in Wichita, Kansas.Patricia is a popular speaker for many kinds of groups. Drop her an email if you would like to find out more about having her speak to your group.
My Review:
Two novellas’ by two different authors but blended by taking place in an Amish community and at the Christmas time.
Loved how the emphasis in both was on the true meaning of the Savior’s birth, and not presents. In the first book we have an excellent caring teacher that seems to be being targeted by a new member of their community. This man seems to want Susannah to leave her job; he feels she is to liberal and not adhering to their conservative beliefs. Add to this an old love, actually more than just an old love, she had been ready to marry him, when he upped and left. He has recently returned, and don’t quite know how I would feel about him. Can you imagine the hurt he caused her?
The second story really made me feel that God was so in charge here, all they had to do was follow Him and not their own will. See how the doors open, and when the truth came out, I was chuckling. She loves me, no she doesn’t she is using you.
I recommend this sweet read, and a good lesson on what our values should be.
I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Love Inspired, and was not required to give a positive review.
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