Bestselling Amish novelist Linda Byler spins a sweet tale of heartache, disappointment, and ultimately hopes fulfilled at Christmastime.
She lives near Lancaster, Pennsylvania..
Linda is well known within the Amish community as a columnist for a weekly Amish newspaper.
She is also the author of The Healing, A Second Chance, and several Amish Christmas Romance novels.
She is the author of several bestselling fiction series, all set in the Amish world: The Dakota Series, Hester\'s Hunt for Home, Lancaster Burning, Sadie\'s Montana, and Lizzie Searches for Love.
About author(s): Linda Byler grew up Amish and is an active member of the Amish church today.
In this charming novel, Byler shares intimate details of day-to-day life in an Amish community while spinning a sweet tale of love and hopes fulfilled at Christmastime.
As an Amish woman herself, she can share details of Amish life that few can replicate.
So why does she look forward to work so much every day? And why can\'t she make her heart beat at a normal pace when he comes near? Linda Byler is beloved for her skillful story telling and true-to-life descriptions of Amish food, faith, and culture.
He\'s her boss and that\'s it.
But she reminds herself over and over that it\'s not worth feeling anything for the man.
And she is aware that he is single.
She can admit to herself that Matthew, the owner of the Amish restaurant at the market where she works, is handsome.
Years pass, and Liz has made peace with her life as a single woman, a "leftover blessing" as the Amish say.
She\'d rather be an old maid than go through that again.
She vowed never to be such a fool again, never to trust her heart to a man who could just up and leave her with hardly an explanation.
She had to bear the pitying looks and awkward glances for many months.
When the wedding was canceled, no one knew what to say.
The whole community had celebrated her engagement, had participated in the wedding planning, had started giving her advice on keeping a home and raising children.
The humiliation was almost as bad as the heartbreak.
Just two weeks before the day she was to exchange vows with her beloved, he changed his mind, and that was that.
In fact, the wedding had been planned, the barn cleaned, and the celery was set to be harvested to make the traditional wedding soup.
Liz had been in love once, had even been engaged.
Bestselling Amish novelist Linda Byler spins a sweet tale of heartache, disappointment, and ultimately hopes fulfilled at Christmastime
