Young Amish couples tend to a community garden and harvest friendships and love along the way in this new story collection by bestselling author Amy Clipston. --Suzanne Woods Fisher, bestselling author of The Devoted.
Once started, you can\'t put this book down.
One story slides into the next, woven together effortlessly with the author\'s knowledge of the Amish life.
Also includes a reading group guide and an Amish glossary.
Book length: approximately 95,000 words.
What will happen when their friends at the Amish garden conspire to bring them back together? Each story in this sweet, contemporary collection can be read as a standalone, but the Stories are best enjoyed together .
But after a series of unexpected events and misunderstandings, they wonder if they should go their separate ways.
Winter Blessings: Ephraim and Mandy have dated for some time and now have plans to marry.
Afraid to trust Englishers , Tena must learn, with Wayne\'s help, that everyone is a child of God and deserving of kindness.
When a stranger comes to the fruit stand one day and asks for food, Tena is not sure how to respond--but Wayne intervenes and offers to let him stay in the barn.
Will Clara help Jerry renew his faith in God, and will they find love beneath the summer sun? The Fruits of Fall: Tena Speicher has come to live in Bird-in-Hand after her fianc left her for an English woman.
As the friends get to know each other again, Clara pushes Jerry to examine why he abandoned his Amish beliefs.
Home by Summer: Clara Hertzler is surprised when Jerry Petersheim, her old friend, comes to the garden to drop off his younger sister--especially because Jerry has been gone for years, and now seems to be living as an Englisher .
What if she somehow loses them both? But Christian, a new boy in the community, also works in the garden--and falling for him may be exactly the distraction, and lesson, that Katie Ann needs.
Spring Is in the Air: As the young people of Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, plant a garden in memory of their friend, Katie Ann begins to worry that her older brother, Ephraim, is dating her best friend.
Young Amish couples tend to a community garden and harvest friendships and love along the way in this new story collection by bestselling author Amy Clipston
