Amish: Hope Walker

By Jeannette Melton

Hope Walker, a young Amish woman, living in Kentucky is adored by her father, Jessie. Hope’s father is going through financial issues and is unable to maintain the farm. As a way to keeping his promise to Hope’s mother, he gives her hand in marriage to a wealthy rancher. Will Hope stay strong in leaving her father behind? Will she find love in an arranged marriage?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeannette Melton
• Release date: Nov 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370213993

Jeannette Melton

Jeannette Melton is a single mother. She resides in South Florida. As a young girl, she wanted to write children's books. After raising her children, she now has time to write books.

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Hope Walker

Amish

Jeannette Melton

Copyright © 2015 by Jeannette Melton.

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This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are construed not to be real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental. This book may not be reproduced whole or in part by any means without the written permission of the author. All rights reserved.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to my wonderful family for all of your support.

Special thanks to Melody Simmons for the wonderful ebook cover and Lucinda Campbell for formatting the book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeannette Melton resides in sunny South Florida. She enjoys walking on the beach, listening to music, watching movies, and spending time with her children. She was in high school when she found that she wanted to write funny stories. With her busy career and with the raising of her children, she put off her dream of writing. To complete her dream of writing, she brings to you AMISH: Hope Walker.

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Leviticus 25:19

And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

Chapter One

Under the Kentucky sky, Hope Walker stood at the creek’s edge watching the rippling waves of the clear water that beckoned her forward. She welcomed the invitation and bent down to remove her black leather shoes and stockings. Placing them at the edge of the creek, she took a few steps into the stream before pulling the hemline of her plain cotton dress up. Feeling the wetness of the hemline, she raised her skirt exposing her bare feet and legs.

Hope smiled as she thought of her mother’s constant worry about her protection. If her mother were alive, she would have indeed been chastised for exposing what she called God’s precious gift. Her mother’s view was that women should never expose themselves. She took a quick glance at her surroundings. There was no one around that she needed to heed her mother’s warning. The thought of being chastised by her mother changed her cheery mood to a feeling of sadness. A teardrop formed in the corner of her eye. Her mother had been shunned after leaving her Amish family in Pennsylvania to marry her father, who she met quite accidentally when he came to the farm to look at a horse that was for sale. Her mother missed her family and suffered emotionally because of the exclusion. If it hadn’t been for her father’s support, her mother might have lost it long before she passed away.

Brr! Hope shrieked as the cold air blanketed her. She came to the creek to relax and needed to change her mood. She took a couple of steps further into the stream allowing the water to come up over her thin ankles. She giggled like a school girl who had just been kissed by a boy for the first time. She closed her cobalt eyes and held her face up to the sun allowing the rays to warm her dewy skin. Taking in deep breaths, she took in the thick smell of pine and wood. The outdoors relaxed her.

After a few minutes in the creek, Hope opened her eyes and lowered her head to look down at her skirt. She had unknowingly released her skirt while she was