Hannah's Amish Education

By Tracy Boston

Hannah's father doesn't like the where his daughter's life is headed. He sends her to an Amish community where he has a job set up for her as a nanny. Hannah is aghast. She wants to start her own business in the Englisch world but without her father's money, she cannot get it started. So she plays along and in so doing, meets Matthew. 
Matthew is a widow with a young child...and a lot more handsome than Hannah expected.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trellis Publishing
• Release date: Jul 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201912635

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Chapter One

You can’t be serious! Hannah Farris couldn’t hide her shock at her father’s pronouncement. I have to work as a housekeeper and nanny for some widowed Amish guy in order to gain access to my trust fund?

Gerard Farris crossed his arms over his chest, an unyielding expression on his face. If you insist on forgoing college, those are my terms. But I don’t know how you expect to be a successful business owner without a business degree. It takes more than just an infusion of cash to run a profitable company.

She wanted to open a single clothing boutique in her hometown, not found a large company with locations across the country, but there was no point in trying to argue that point with her father yet again.

You actually expected me to live with a stranger and his family for the entire summer? she asked in disbelief.

Matthew Lapp is a good man. I’ve known him for over a year now, since I invested in his furniture-making business.

Apparently, her father was more than willing to give strangers money to fund their businesses, but he wouldn’t do the same thing for his own daughter. And she wasn’t even asking him to invest his own capital, merely release the funds that her mother had left in trust to Hannah.

She doubted that Matthew Lapp had a business degree, but she didn’t think it wise to point out that fact to her father just now. Instead, she tried a different tack.

And this good Amish man doesn’t mind that I have no experience cooking or cleaning or tending to children?

I’m sure you’ll figure it out without too much trouble. This will teach you the value of hard work.

Hannah knew better than to continue arguing with her father. Once his mind