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The Factory Worker


Brenda Maxfield - 2020
    But instead of proposing, Daniel Jantzi tells her he must move north to work in the factories. If he doesn’t earn money quickly, his family will lose their farm. Although sad to see him go, Sadie understands, and they promise to stay close by writing.Sadie’s father is getting on in years and wants help around the farm. Having only daughters, he needs a strong, available son-in-law. He decides that Sadie must marry Aaron Mullet. Sadie is stunned by this demand, as arranged marriages simply aren’t done; yet, she finds herself forced into a courtship she has no interest in.Aaron devises a plan, but it involves deception and lying—something neither of them condone. But how else can Sadie keep her true love?

The Royal Rescue


Ginny Sterling - 2020
    The newest groundbreaking procedure is fascinating and the publicity visit shows her country’s full support of the medical breakthrough. She loves children, but when a terrorist takes control of the hospital floor to reach her… they are playing a dangerous game with her loyalty, her money, and her heart!Abel Wright thought the team at Disaster City Search and Rescue was pulling his leg! Terrorists had taken the crown princess hostage, and the hospital was in danger of being blown up. His assignment was to go undercover, rescue the princess, and save the day. This wasn’t a typical Friday night — it sounded like the theme to a video game.Could rescuing the princess earn him some mana, a box of loot, some experience points, or perhaps the best prize ever…her heart?

The Amish Lumberjack: Amish Romance (The Amish of Hope Valley Book 2)


Emma Schwartz - 2018
    But when a terrible accident sidelines her hero, she jumps into save the family logging business.When the handsome Chandler Lantz comes calling, pretending to care about her success, she scoffs and rejects him. After all, he's Brenneman Logging's arch rival. All he wants is to pull the wool over her eyes because she's a woman and steal what rightfully belongs to her family.She won't have it.And she won't have him.When things don't go according to plan at Brenneman Logging, Amity realized she was in over her head. She didn't know a thing about logs or loggers,her specialty was keeping the ledgers. With a tenuous grip, she clasped Chandler's hand and allowed him to lead her.But will her bitter rival lead her to love or to her own demise?*****This is the exciting new best-selling Amish Romance Series by #1 inspirational author, Emma Schwartz. The saga of Hope Valley, Iowa continues with The Amish Lumberjack,Book #2. All Emma Schwartz's Amish Romance books are clean, wholesome and filled with family values. This standalone, Amish romance novel contains no cliffhanger and a joyful happily ever after.Download now!

Winter Surplus


Sicily Yoder - 2012
    The last three teachers found love and didn't stay at teaching for a full year.   Nathan has two special-needs children, and is a widower, so he needs a teacher that will stay put.   Abby has taken the job to help her blind season, but she has to keep pushing her selfish needs back as she finds Nathan very intriguing. However, Nathan is battling his affection for Abby because he can't see God answering both of his prayers: the prayer for a good schoolteacher and a good wife.   Will Abby stay focused as a schoolteacher, or will she let her heart slip away. Will Nathan be able to help keep Abby work-centered, or will his manliness make him error?

Amish Love in Faith's Creek Boxed Set


Sarah Miller - 2015
    Many of the characters are in multiple books but each book is a complete story. Mary’s Faith Life in the Amish community is a mixture of joy and despair for Mary Beachey. Her courting years were spent caring for elderly parents and now she feels all that is left for her is to teach. Her nights are spent alone with no children of her own. Ruben Wagler lost his wife in childbirth and the only thing that kept him going was his daughter Lucy. Moving to a new community is a fresh start His heart is healing and maybe he can find a mother for his daughter and a place in his life for new love. Can Mary’s faith lead to a happy ending or is she destined to be alone forever? Hanna’s Journey Home When disaster falls can Hanna keep her faith and find a true Amish love? Hanna has made some mistakes and the biggest of those was leaving the Amish community and spending three years with the Englisch. Having come home she has almost everything she could hope for except love. After a storm she must return to the Englisch world to earn enough money to pay for repairs While Hanna worries about her life, across the fields Amos stares at the woman he has loved for so many years. All he has to do is walk over and offer help so why is it so difficult? Will Hanna keep her faith and stay with the Amish to find true love or will she be led back to the outside world once again? Katie’s Amish Choice Sometimes Love is all you need. When Katie's parents suggest that Jacob Glick comes for dinner, all she can see is a future of darkness. The man is mean to his horses and Katie's life is all about horses. She rescues them and nurses them back to health before selling them on to her Amish friends. Then there is the secret, something happened between them long ago, something she was forced to keep quiet. Amish Baby Hope God has a plan for all of us – Anna hopes hers includes a baby As Anna nears her due date her father’s illness brings stress and disaster into their simple, peaceful lives. As a simple Amish girl Anna does not ask for much, all she prays and hopes for, is her baby. But life has been difficult. She has already had two miscarriages and now her health is at risk. Will she carry the child to term this time or will the stress destroy her faith along with her child? While all this is going on an arrogant English man comes calling, will he steal the bakery out from under them? Amish Valentine Sometimes true love needs help. Rebecca has loved Henry for as long as she can remember. They have been courting for over two years, but recently he has been cold to her. All he talks about is going away on his rumspsringa. Then she discovers the biggest bunch of flowers she has ever seen, and they are for her. Joy turns to heartache when she finds they are not from Henry. Amish True Love Lucy has always dreamed of true love. There are only a few things that Lucy Esch wants out of life, true love, a pet to call her own and to talk with her God. With such simple hopes who would imagine that things could go so terribly wrong? Amish Denial Susan loves Aaron but would she leave her family and all she knows to keep that love? Susan and Aaron have been courting for two years and all she wants is marriage and children. However, Aaron is struggling with his faith and the death of his Mom. He craves excitement and experience and cannot let go of his grief.

The Forbidden (Forbidden Amish Love Book 2)


Tattie Maggard - 2017
    Could one impulsive moment cost Emily the only man she’s ever loved? A continuation of the Forbidden Amish Love series.Series Order:The BrokenThe ForbiddenThe Secret

The True Love and Precious Love Series Boxset


Juliette Duncan - 2019
    FALL IN LOVE WITH BEN & TESSA TODAY!! She’s a committed Christian. He’s a dedicated father. Will a chance meeting repair their fragile hearts?Tessa Scott can’t help but question God’s will. After the animal surgeon’s long-term boyfriend cut loose, she’s all alone except for the goofy, untrained stray she met outside her clinic. But when a trip to puppy school reveals a dashing single father, Tessa wonders if becoming a wife and a mother may be part of her path…Ben Williams kept most of his feelings inside when his wife left him. Absorbed with his work and raising his son, he’s surprised by his therapist’s prescription to get a new dog to care for. The captivating woman he meets at training class stirs something inside him, but can he move past his painful divorce to open his heart all over again?As their friendship grows deeper, the challenge with Ben’s rebellious son rises to a whole new level. If Tessa can overcome her doubts and Ben can embrace his future, then they may just find God’s peace after all…A roller-coaster ride of emotions and experiences ensue as Tessa, Ben and Jayden do life together and learn to trust God to meet their every need. “The True Love and Precious Love Boxset”  includes all 7 books from both series, plus “Unchained”, “True Love at Christmas” and “Promises of Love”. If you like charming characters, faith-filled families, and friendships that become something more, then you’ll love Juliette Duncan’s inspirational second-chance romance set in sunny Queensland, Australia. Books by Juliette Duncan Contemporary Christian Romance The Shadows Series Lingering Shadows Facing the Shadows Beyond the Shadows Secrets and Sacrifice A Highland Christmas The True Love Series Tender Love Tested Love Tormented Love Triumphant Love True Love at Christmas Promises of Love Precious Love Series Forever Cherished Forever Faithful Forever His The Potter’s House Books Series The Homecoming Unchained Blessings of Love A Time for Everything Series A Time to Treasure A Time to Care and more to come... Standalone Romantic Suspense Leave Before He Kills You Middle Grade Christian Fiction The Madeleine Richards Series Rebellion in Riversleigh Problems in

Resisting the Rancher (Black Rock Ranch #2)


Jen Peters - 2021
    

Sisters of the Heart: The Trilogy


Shelley Shepard Gray - 2012
    But while she feels she?s found a home among the Amish, can Anna deny the life she left behind? And will her chance for happiness be stolen away by the man from her past? Wanted: Frightened by how far she?s strayed from her values during her Rumspringa, Katie vows to cut all ties with the outside world. Now widower Jonathan Lundy has asked her to help him take care of his two young girls. Will the past destroy Katie?s chances for love? Forgiven: Injured when a fire destroys her family?s barn, Winnie returns home from the hospital to find her brother, Jonathan, seeking vengeance on the arsonist responsible. But in an Amish community founded on grace and forgiveness, will his unwillingness to forgive ruin the trust that forms the foundation of their lives?

Don't Leave Me (Chapel Cove Romances, #13)


Alexa Verde - 2021
    She surprises herself by buying a beach house in need of repairs that reminds her of her childhood home. As an elite fitness trainer, she travels to her clients’ locations and never stays in one place for long. Can her handsome neighbor finally bring home to her heart?After a tragic loss, Jason Carrington became a hermit. But when his lovely new neighbor needs his help with repairs, he finds himself spending a lot of time with her and gradually falling for her. However, she doesn’t intend to stay—or open herself for love. Will the truth behind her secret bring them closer—or tear them apart?

Unmarried: An Amish Romance (The Troyers of Lancaster County Book 1)


Julie Frankland - 2018
    She's soon forced to leave her cozy life to take action and help her fellow merchants after a new development outside of Mount Akron begins. Zeke is the owner of the hardware store next to Sarah’s bakery and he’s been in love with Sarah for as long as he’s known her. He’s been too shy to ask her out. Thrown together in a mutual task of saving their shops, the two get to know each other and what they are capable of. Even with Sarah’s father admonishing her about the lure of the English world, Sarah still knows that God has put this obstacle in her path for a reason.Though Sarah has some doubts that a man will want her as a wife, she still pursues the leadership role she feels God has destined for her. As Sarah blossoms, Zeke falls more in love with her and knows that he must state his intentions. He knows that not just any man will be good enough for Sarah. She needs a man who has the strong faith that he possesses to help her walk with God while doing his will. But will he be able to find the courage to make that first move?

The Orphaned Amish Family


Mary Lantz - 2021
    

Deadly Redemption (Deadly Alliances #3)


Candle Sutton - 2015
    A band of renegades. And one ex-con who is willing to risk everything to stop them. Life hasn’t turned out as Nate Miller expected. Serving a life sentence for his involvement with Stevens’ assassinations, he lives each day with little to anticipate. Until the FBI arrives with an offer greater than he’d ever imagined. Freedom. All he has to do is infiltrate a militia group and help bring them to justice. The group is responsible for dozens of deaths and the FBI believes that they’re just getting started. Their weapon of choice? A deadly biotoxin that kills without discrimination. Although he has an in, infiltrating the group won’t be easy. It might prove fatal. But if he has the opportunity to save lives, doesn’t he also have the obligation to do whatever it takes? His relatively newfound faith in God spurs him to agree to the FBI’s terms. As he goes deeper into a life he thought he’d left behind, he finds himself being drawn back into activities he’d never thought he’d be a part of again. When the group threatens the woman he loves, he’s forced to go further than he planned in order to keep her safe. What if he can’t protect her? What if the group adds her to their growing list of casualties? While the group plots their next target, Nate struggles to maintain his cover. Can he stop them from launching an attack that will decimate the city? Or will he be forced past a point of no return?

The Byler Brothers: the complete series box set


Abigail Fisher - 2015
     Matthew hires Mandy Bowman, an Englischer in need of a place to live, to take care of the house and his youngest brother, John, who is blind. Mandy is exceptional with John and empowers him to do more for himself and build confidence and acceptance with his disability. Sparks fly between Matthew and Mandy, especially in a crisis, but when Mandy’s step-father arrives, everything changes. Will Matthew accept Mandy’s past and still love her? Will Mandy stay and accept the Amish way of life? Is there hope for two very different people to find love and happiness together? Find out now in THE BYLER BROTHERS Series: Book 1: "MATTHEW" Book Two: MARK: (Mark's Story: The Calling) Mark clings to his Amish faith in the aftermath of his parent’s fatal accident. After experiencing a spiritual calling similar to Paul or Samuel in the Bible, Mark is convinced that God has a special plan for him. Is he God’s choice to be the next bishop in his community? Hannah Hershberger lives next door to the Bylers. She has loved Mark from the time they were children together in school. After seventeen years, he finally notices her and asks her to attend the Fourth of July celebration with her. Is Mark truly interested in her or does he just want time with her grandfather, the bishop? When the bishop falls ill, Mark and Hannah spend time together watching over him, and he asks her to marry him while her grandfather is able to perform the ceremony. Hannah happily agrees. But when something happens that causes Hannah to question Mark’s intentions, she must decide what to do. Will Hannah call off the wedding? Will Mark learn to let go of his own intentions and trust God’s plan? How will God’s plan be revealed? Find out now in THE BYLER BROTHERS Series: Book 2: "MARK" Book Three: LUKE: (Luke's Story: Love on the Road) Two years after the devastating death of his parents, Luke Byler is sixteen years old and ready to get out of his small community and see the world. Amber Westbrook has graduated from high school and is determined to follow her dream to buy a trailer and experience life by travelling the country. Luke and Amber are joined by their sense of adventure and desire for new experiences, but when the world turns out to be more harsh than they expected, they turn to each other for support. How will a sheltered Amish boy and simple farm girl manage in a tough city? Will they stay strong with worldly temptations or learn from their difficult lessons? Where is peace found in the middle of chaos and trouble? Find out now in THE BYLER BROTHERS Series: Book 3: "LUKE" Book Four: JOHN (John's Story: Gift or Curse?) Being blind since birth, John Byler has developed sensitivities that are unique and cause him to see the w

Take a Cowboy Home for Christmas


Liz Isaacson - 2019
    Get five feel-good, satisfying, and uplifting cowboy romances in this Christian holiday collection. You'll get lost in ranch life, with sexy and sweet cowboys, swoon-worthy, faith-filled romance, and the perfect love story to curl up with as you sip a cup of hot cocoa in front of the fireplace! Her Cowboy Billionaire Best Friend: A cowboy returning to his hometown—and the best friend he left a dozen years before. This Christmas, can they build a family and find their happily-ever-after? #1 bestseller in Clean & Wholesome Romance, #1 bestseller in Christian Romance, #1 bestseller in Christian Westerns Cheering the Cowboy: A cowboy with anger management issues, the woman whose ranch he "stole," and their chance to get everything they want for Christmas...including each other. Her Last Cowboy Christmas: She's tired of having her heart broken by cowboys. He waited too long to ask her out. Can Lance fix things quickly, or will Amber leave Last Chance Ranch before he can tell her how he feels? The Sleigh on Seventeenth Street: A cowboy with skills as an electrician tries a relationship with a down-on-her luck plumber. Can Dylan and Camila make water and electricity play nicely together this Christmas season? Falling for His Next-Door Neighbor: Two next-door neighbors vying for the same job this Christmas...who will win? And who will lose their heart?