One Amish Summer

By Samantha Collier

Delilah is sent to live with her aunt in an Amish community as her mother wants her to experience a different way of life. A sickly child, she has been bedridden for the majority of her life and is still naive to the ways of the world. In the Amish community, she meets a man that she could only dream about but discovers a horrifying and dark secret about him. Will she believe the accusations against him or will she stand by his side and take his word?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trellis Publishing
• Release date: Jul 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393135616

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One Amish Summer

The wide plains of Pennsylvania were like undulating waves, tossing over Delilah.  She had never seen the sea, but she imagined that it must be like this: never ending, eternal.  She felt alone, in the vast landscape.

They had been travelling for a few hours, and she was starting to despair.  When would they arrive in at their destination? She had never travelled so far, and for so long. Any trips that her family had made over the years she had been exempt from, because of her health.  Her mother had always said that she simply wasn’t up to long trips.  And so, Delilah had always been left behind, in the care of relatives.

Until now.  Now, she was going to stay with her aunt, over the summer period.  And all by herself.  Her father was taking her there, but he would return home almost immediately.

The buggy jolted over the unfamiliar terrain.  Her father frowned, righting the carriage.  He wasn’t used to this area of the country, either.  And she knew that he was doing it under sufferance, at her mother’s insistence.  He had work to do; he didn’t want to take time out of his schedule for this trip.  As always, Delilah felt herself a burden.

She didn’t even know why her mother had insisted so vehemently.  She would have been happier staying at home; she had never sought this out.  Yes, it would be nice to catch up with her Aunt Mildred and her cousin Katura, but she had never been with them for long periods of time. She didn’t know what to expect.

Delilah had been thrust out of the comfortable bubble that she had lived in all of her life, and she was apprehensive.

At last.  Her father turned down a dirt track,