Amish Ruby

By Monica Marks

Ruby is a young Amish woman who has written off dating after another heartbreak. Not wanting to suffer again, she focuses her attention on keeping up her grandparent's market stand. The business itself starts to struggle and Ruby is at her wit's end...when Jethro Berkey walks back into her life. 

Jethro had left the Amish community behind seven years ago. But now he has returned, more mature and even more handsome than Ruby remembered. But can they both find a way to share a future together and mend the hurts of the past?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pettway Publishing
• Release date: Oct 22, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386438069

Book preview

Love at the Farmer’s Market

Ruby walked slowly up the walkway toward the farmhouse, her body heavy as if she was filled with sand. Each step seemed to intensify the weight in her slim frame.

I am getting old, she thought. If she had not been in such a sour state, she would have laughed at her assessment but her sense of humor was faltering. Ruby knew she was not old, she was just tired.

Tired of everything, she thought with some bitterness but she tried desperately to refocus her desolation, determined not to let her melancholy affect the golden Labrador who came running up to her with her tail wagging.

Hello, Ginger, Ruby greeted the blonde dog affectionately. Ginger licked her hand, peering up at Ruby, her brow eyes lit with adoration. Ruby closed the gate behind her and turned to follow the animal toward the porch. The dusk was finally settling and her grandparents had lit a kerosene lantern for her, knowing she would be home as darkness fell.

Dear Gotte, please let them be asleep. I do not have it in me to give them more bad news today.

Ruby knew her hopes were unreasonable; it was not yet eight o’clock but Ruby had stayed out as late as she could. If they were still awake, they would be worried if she were to remain in town much longer but she knew they would not rest easily if she did not come home before they slept.

As she had feared, her grandfather was seated in the kitchen to her right as she walked inside. He appeared to be nodding off and Ruby felt a flash of shame seeing him in the uneven wooden chair.

He was waiting up for me, she recognized, slowly approaching him. She did not want to startle him on account of