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BOOK OVERVIEW FROM ANNIE'S FICTION
#17 BUILT ON FAITH
BY ANITA GREENE
Five years ago, Naomi Kemp left her family in Pennsylvania to marry an Ohio farmer. But that's not the only thing she left behind. Her Daed and Grossdawdi, expert furniture makers, had recognized her natural talent and taught her to carve intricate designs on the items they built. When she married, though, she set aside her chisels and gouges to become a traditional Amish wife and mother. Now, with both her husband and her Daed gone, she and little Davy return to help her Mamm, who has her hands full with the furniture business, boarders in the home, and Naomi's dear Grossdawdi, who is suffering from dementia. The move is only supposed to be temporary, but her father's apprentice is making it difficult to think about leaving . . .
Paul Belsley is more than grateful to the furniture makers who gave him a chance when he needed one after a bad choice made during his Rumspringa. He's been running the shop, but he doesn't have any ownership in the business, and he doesn't want to be an employee all his life. Worse, it's painfully obvious that, although he does a fine job on ordinary pieces, he doesn't have the skills to embellish the custom work that fetches the high prices, money that his employer desperately needs if she's to keep everything afloat. When Naomi arrives from Ohio, he fears that she will convince her mother to close the shop. What he doesn't expect is that Naomi might just open his heart instead.
With the clock ticking on a high-end order that Paul can't complete, Naomi knows she must step in. But her husband's family is pressuring her to return. Not only do they need her help with the farm work, they want Davy grow up with them so he can claim his birthright. And her husband's brothers have very definite ideas about whom she should marry: waiting back in Ohio is a widower with several children who has shown an interest in her. Torn between her duty to her Mamm and her duty to her son, Naomi must decide where she truly belongs.
If she digs deep enough, Naomi may just find that she and Paul are building something more than furniture together: they're building a life.
#18 A LONG WAY HOME
BY AIME DENMAN
Phoebe Byler is grieving the loss of her father. She and her mother are cobbling together a living, keeping their home by selling quilts and baked goods in their Ohio community. How long they can manage is anyone's guess, but Phoebe will do everything in her power to save the farm . . . well, almost anything. Marrying the boy next door would solve all her immediate problems, but it would create a bigger one: she doesn't love him.
Luke Pearson is a man without roots. He's lost his job at a small museum and given up his apartment in Florida. While contemplating his future, he accepts a job as an antique car mechanic on a cross-country road race. He's never felt quite comfortable in his world, preferring the simplicity of the old-fashioned machines he works on to the breakneck speed and complicated technology that threaten to swallow him up. When the Depression-era car he's riding in is involved in a collision with an Amish buggy, requiring him to stay in the rural Midwest to make repairs, he begins to envision what a rewarding life might look like. What he doesn't expect is to develop feelings for Phoebe, a strong, beautiful Amish woman who knows exactly where she belongs.
While Luke works on the car in her father's barn, Phoebe gets to know the kind, handsome Englischer and finds she likes him very much, maybe too much. He's only here temporarily, but her heart is starting to feel like something permanent is happening. Her emotions, though, must take a back seat to a more immediate issue: An allegation has been made against Luke's employer as a result of the accident, and Phoebe is the only independent witness. She will have to put aside her reluctance and testify in court. But will telling the truth cost her the man she now knows she can't live without?
At first their obstacles seem insurmountable. But with love to guide them, home may be waiting at the end of their journey . . . if they take the trip together.
#19 REMEMBERING DAISY
BY DANA R. LYNN
Tobias Rediger's world has been devastated by tragedy. Five years ago, a tornado claimed the lives of his father, brothers, and sisters–along with the one woman he had promised to love forever. Now he cares for his permanently injured mother and works long hours as a farrier, traveling the Pennsylvania countryside to tend to his neighbors' horses. It's a busy existence, if not a satisfying one, but hard labor keeps the horrifying memories at bay. When he stops to help an unconscious woman along the side of the road one day, Tobias somehow knows that the course of his life is about to be altered ... and just like the storm, he's powerless to stop it.
The young woman Tobias found can't remember anything, including her own name. The kind, handsome Amish man who brought her home to be cared for by his dear mother calls her Daisy, because she was clutching a crumpled flower as she lay there in the rain. It's as good a name as any, yet Daisy can't help but wonder if more than a head injury is keeping her memories at bay. Surely she must have friends or family in the Englisch world, but why isn't anyone looking for her? One thing she does know is that with every day that passes, she is drawing closer to Tobias. But even as she slowly regains bits and pieces of her past, she finds she's losing a little more of her heart.
Daisy and Tobias both know that, although it will inevitably drive them apart, they must find out where she came from and who she is. Their search will force them each to confront their buried pain–yet it might also show them who they can become ... together.
#20 A LESSON FOR HER HEART
BY DOROTHY CLARANS
Sylvia Lantz needs a place to call home. More than that, she needs answers. Years ago, after the death of Sylvia's father, Erma Lantz uprooted Sylvia from their Amish community and moved to Pittsburgh to live among the Englisch. Erma has never told Sylvia why they left. Sylvia only knows she doesn't fit in with the fast pace of city life. Only a few classes away from obtaining her college degree, and fleeing from both a terrible student teaching job and a broken romantic relationship, she retreats to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the only place she ever felt secure and whole. Now she just needs to convince her Onkel, the bishop, to allow her to stay.
Blacksmith Nathaniel Heiser doesn't like doing business with the Englisch. But the bishop and deacons have asked him not only to showcase his hand-wrought items at the farmers' market with other local artisans, but to sell them every weekend. Interacting with the public, especially the tourists who frequent the booth, is not his strong suit. So when the bishop suggests that Sylvia work with him, Nathaniel knows he should be relieved that he won't have to deal with customers all by himself. If only his helper was someone other than Sylvia. She might be lovely in her Amish clothes, but she's been away from the community so long, she's no longer one of them. He gave his heart away once to someone who was tempted by the ways of the outside world, and he's not about to let that happen again.
Just as Sylvia is beginning to make a life for herself in Wheatland, she is called away when her mother breaks her leg. As difficult as it will be to leave the community where she knows she belongs, leaving Nathaniel will be far worse. But perhaps Erma's accident is a blessing in disguise. Before Sylvia can fully commit to the Amish faith, she must face the mistakes of her past, and perhaps in the process help heal the old rift between her Mamm and Onkel.
When Sylvia returns, stronger and wiser, she'll need to convince Nathaniel that she's there to stay. If she can, they'll forge a path into a bright future of faith, honesty, and love.