Amish Vows Series

"I really loved this book. Beautiful love story of two strong characters."--Review   "...this author is talented."--Review   Kate must ask her first love to marry her, even though she later married another man! Agreeing to this, Enoch angrily--and out of a deep hurt--deviously determines to make Kate pay.   When Kates's only financial support dies in a buggy accident along with her beloved parents, widowed Kate Bieler must find refuge for herself and the young child of her deceased husband. Refusing the bishop's suggestion that she marry his teenaged son, she very reluctantly asks the only other single Mann in their small Amish settlement to marry her. Unfortunately, Kate and Enoch Miller share a conflicted past. When she went on rumspringa against his wishes, Enoch cut communication and their courtship ceased. Distressed and angry, Kate then married another man, but she never stopped loving Enoch. When widowed shortly later, after praying to God, she knows she must ask Enoch to marry her and take in the child of the man she'd married instead of Enoch.   Enoch marries her with vengeance in his heart, but he realizes he still has feelings for her...and he now comes to care about the child of his rival that she brings with her. Can they find the love they once lost? 

Jilted! Just before Mercy Yoder was to wed a man she'd known her whole life, he left her and their life for the Englischer world. To mend her heart and her pride, she leaves her small Amish community for a stay with her uncle. There Mercy meets handsome furniture builder Isaac Miller who, unbeknownst to her, played a role in her disgrace. Drawn to blue-eyed Mercy and consumed with guilt, Isaac prays to God for guidance, even as he starts falling in love with the one woman from whom he should stay away. When the man Mercy was to marry reappears to tempt her to come with him to a different life, she learns Isaac's secret. Can Mercy forgive him and accept his love?

Daniel Stolzfus knows he disgraced himself and his familye when he jilted the woman he was to marry, entering the Englischer world. Like the Prodigal Son, he returns to his Amish roots determined to follow God's direction from this point forward. He knows that although they forgive him, many Amish no longer trust him. Since he's no longer being given his parents' farm, he goes to work in Joel Troyer's buggy shop. It's there that he meets and is drawn to Lydia Troyer, the only daughter still living with Joel and Miriam.   Lydia is in big trouble. Having allowed her loneliness while on rumspringa to lead to her sleeping with an Englischer, she's now pregnant and unmarried. When Daniel discovers her plight, he offers her marriage with his broken self to enable her to raise her child. Deeply conflicted, Lydia's prayers lead her to accept his offer. Both struggling to accept God's forgiveness, they embark upon a life together. Daniel is greatly looking forward to fathering the child Lydia carries, which he insists is now his child. He feels deeply betrayed, though, when he finds that Lydia wrote to tell the Englischer of her pregnancy...and Daniel later sees her with the man. It's not until that moment when Daniel realizes how deeply he's come to love the wife who seems to be leaving him for the Englischer world. Can Lydia defend having told the Englischer about her pregnancy and convince Daniel that she loves him?

Hagar Hershberger has a lot of reason to dislike Gideon Lapp, no matter how much she prayes to God to help her forgive him. When Gideon suggest Peter marry a different girl--after courting with Hagar--he lost her friendship. Now, Hagar's widowed mother has deeded her father's blacksmith forge to Gideon because Hagar's dead father taught Gideon the skill. Since the forge is right behind the farm house she grew up in, Hagar must now face every day the man who wrecked her planned life. Gideon knew Peter didn't have enough strength of character to match Hagar's spunk. He misses her friendship, but he doesn't realize at first that, while she's not right for Peter, she's right for Gideon. These two strong-minded people must thrash out the 'smithy issue and, in the process, find that their hearts beat only for one another.

In this final installment of the Amish Vows series, Mark Fisher frustrates Sarah Beiler as much as he tempts her. Their story takes place ten years after Sarah's step-mother, Kate, marries her long-time love, Enoch Milller, in Amish Renegade.   Catch up on the lives and loves of the Amish Vows couples and see how feisty, spunky Sarah and teasing, never-serious Mark come to realize that they've found their hearts in one another. Having lived through, as a child, the distress of she and Kate needing to find a haven when Sarah's father died, Sarah has determined that she'll only choose a husband who is established and stable to care for his family. She's strongly attracted to Mark, but wishes he'd settle down, instead of jumping from one job to another. Stong-minded Mark Fisher is determined to find his own path. He never lacks for a job, but Sarah refuses to let herself fall in love with him ad he won't establish himself in a vocation.   Whether repairing a cistern together or playing volleyball, the attraction between these two is clear as they spark and argue. Will they resolve their conflict and find love? In trusting their faith, Sarah and Mark find one another.