Everlasting Amish Love (Amish Romance): Amish Love Stories Series: Emma & Benjamin

By Rebecca Byler

Emma's past life in the city has been forgiven by her Amish family, but sometimes the past refuses to be forgotten...

Emma's family has welcomed her back in the Amish community to put her life back in order. When she falls in love with Benjamin and they wish to marry, not everyone is willing to bless their marriage.

When they decide to leave for the city and be married in secret, one of them makes a decision that could jeopardize their love and their life together.

* Will Emma's desire to overcome her past be strong enough for life and love with Benjamin?
* Will Benjamin's love for emma be strong enough to withstand the storms of her past life in the city?
* Or will Emma and Benjamin's fragile love be another victim of her past... a past that refuses to be forgotten?

Read "Emma and Benjamin" today and see what their future holds!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rebecca Byler
• Release date: Jan 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311043221

Rebecca Byler

I am a committed Christian and I love writing. I started to be interested in the Amish culture when I visited Pennsylvania when I was a student. I think it is fascinating that the Amish culture is still surviving strongly within our modern society. Sometimes I long for their simple lifestyle myself but only in my daydreams as I love modern conveniences too much. I am married and when I don't write I am looking after my little girl. I live in a village and I love my rose garden.

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EVERLASTING AMISH LOVE (AMISH ROMANCE)

Amish Love Stories Series - Book 1

Emma and Benjamin

Author: Rebecca Byler

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Copyright 2014 Rebecca Byler

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Published 2015

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Other books by Rebecca Byler:

Amish Love Stories Series

Everlasting Amish Love: Gloria & Samuel

Everlasting Amish Love: Emma & Benjamin

50 Shades of Amish Love: The Painter

50 Shades of Amish Love: Love Me Love My Horse

50 Shades of Amish Love: The Pianist

Contents

Copyright

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

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Prologue

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Song of Solomon 8:7

Chapter 1

I think you’re really going to like it here Emma. Ruth smiles at her niece as they both sit in the back of the black horse drawn buggy. The dark haired, younger woman doesn’t feel quite so sure however. She just smiles weakly back at her fair haired ant, before returning her focus to outside of the buggy’s window, watching the rolling farmland out there, with horses dotting the landscape every now and again as they plow the fields with their modestly dressed drivers.

Well, just take your time. Ruth goes on kindly. I know you’ve had your troubles back in the city, but you’re coming to live with me and your uncle Jonah now. We can put all of that behind us. Gott would want that. Maybe that’s even why he’s bringing you here. Emma looks down at her own clothes now, a denim jacket only narrowly covering a logoed t-shirt, slimly fitted blue jeans and brand name trainers. All of them are reminders of her life in the city, and just how much different she is than her ant and uncle, dressed in their plain outfits of black and white.

Emma wants to believe what Ruth is saying, but that’s easier said than done with the disregard for her faith she’s received growing up in the city with her parents over the years. They made the decision to leave the Amish community before she was even born, but they still upheld their religious beliefs. That was harder for Emma as she grew up in an area so void of faith everywhere else she looked. Even now as a young woman of sixteen she’s feeling discouraged by her own wavering faith in God because of that past. She doesn’t have the heart to tell her ant and uncle that however. She just hopes she’s going to have enough faith left not to disappoint them whenever the topic comes up.

It’s a lot to take in, isn’t it? Jonah, her uncle, calls from the front of the buggy where he sits steering the horse. He’s misread Emma’s silence caused by deep thought and instead taken it as her being overwhelmed by the vastness of the countryside she was looking over. But you’ll get used to all of this. He continues when the young woman looks to him this time. We all know each other out here, like one big family. Once you’re a part of that, helping out one another, you’ll find that this is a gut way of life.

We shouldn’t expect too much of her too soon Jonah. The mann’s wife laughs at his enthusiasm. You and I both know living out here is a big step from living in the city. Why, I still remember the times my sister and Mathew used to come back and visit when they first moved away. They couldn’t get their heads around how we go without all the modern conveniences they had back home. Dinner was never meant to take ten minutes to cook and come out of a plastic packet. She shakes her head fondly at the memory of the young couple’s whining at how hungry they were while they helped out with working on dinner.

Maybe so. Jonah smiles at that memory too. But Emma here’s going to have all the time she needs. Besides, as I recall Mathew and your sister couldn’t deny that the meal we all put together was more filling than those ‘TV-dinners’. It tasted better too, I remember them saying, so it was worth the wait. Don’t let their nonsense discourage you Emma. The mann tells his niece in a fatherly manner.

I won’t. The girl says quietly. She likes the friendly exchanges between her ant and uncle, but she doesn’t know if she