Amische & Mennoniten

Johanna Yoder can breathe again. Willow Brook's once tyrannical Bishop Zook has been replaced by Gott's true elect, Gideon Hochstetler. And the new bishop can't help but show some special leniency towards the aspiring Amish writer. Working at the Mountain Laurel Star newspaper while remaining Amish is a dream come true for Johanna. And, as her love for the Englischer reporter, Judah Barton, steadily increases, so does a niggling suspicion that her former bishop rots in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Judah joins Johanna in her convictions, and together they seek to uncover the truth to what really happened that dark night over forty years ago when three men were killed. But in the middle of searching for answers, Johanna finds herself struggling with a crushing crisis that comes from living a double life. Who is she, really? Does Johanna have it in her to embrace what she needs most as she desperately fights for justice for a man who once wished her dead?

Neither Margaret nor Owen has any interest in getting married. But in the small Amish town of Birch Creek, where marriage is on everyone's mind, their plans don't stand a chance.Margaret Yoder can't seem to catch a break. Even though she's dedicated to her Amish faith, her wild rumspringa won't stay in the past, and her mother keeps pressuring her to get married. To placate her mother and get away from former "friends", she decides to return to Birch Creek to visit family--and pretend to find a husband.Like Margaret, Owen Bontrager isn't looking for a spouse, something that's hard to avoid in Birch Creek, where an ad for brides in the local paper has brought a swarm of single women to the thriving town. When he meets Margaret in an unexpected way, they discover they have more in common than they ever expected. In some ways, they are a perfect match.Margaret struggles to keep her goal of avoiding romance in order to focus on being a faithful member of the Amish church, and it doesn't help that she finds Owen intriguing. Knowing they don't have a future together; she returns home and gives in to her mother's insistence that she get married.Can Margaret betray her feelings for Owen and become a dutiful daughter and wife to the man of her mother's choosing? Or will Owen find a way to free Margaret of her past by giving her the future they both are surprised to find they desire?- Sweet Amish romance- Second in the Amish Mail-Order Bride series, but can be read in any order- Book 1: A Double Dose of Love- Book 2: Matched and Married- Book 3: Love in Plain Sight - Book length: 77,000 words- Includes discussion questions for book clubs

Eighteen and deaf, confused because her family wears black clothes when the people in a nearby town do not, Eliza Gray has no idea she is Amish. Her peers mock her deafness. Her mother makes her work while her siblings attend school. Still, she manages to find a tiny bit of happiness in life-by creating amazing art with the colors she gathers from nature.<BR>When Eliza fights back against her tormentors, it begins a chain of events she could never imagine. One is when art collectors clamor for her work. Another is having the family she's always wanted through sign language. When she falls in love with her teacher, she must decide between love and being shunned-and the decision could destroy both her and the man she loves.

Could anyone ever truly love . . . a beast . . .Scarred inside and out, Aden Bontrager hides himself away from the world in his dark house... The community learned long ago not to disturb the beastly young man, the sole survivor of a tragedy that left the town reeling with loss and heartbreak.Until one night, when a thunderstorm and a bicycle accident forces the community's new schoolteacher to knock at his door.When she isn't teaching, Beth spends her time buried within the pages of a book. She and her father have moved many times in the years since her mother's death. He builds clocks and she teaches each community's scholars.Something about the young man who grudgingly opens his home to her during a sudden downpour intrigues her. He hides himself away in dark and gloom, and somehow still manages to create breathtaking masterpieces out of simple blocks of wood.Can she find the man within or will the beast succeed in pushing her away... for good?This is a story about healing, love, and surviving unexpected tragedy.Her Beastly Blessing is a plain retelling of the much beloved Beauty and the Beast.