Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The Amish Kitchen is the Heart of the Home and the Ideal Setting for Stories of Love and Hope.
Fall in Paradise, Pennsylvania, always brings a brisk change in the weather. This season also ushers in unexpected visitors, new love, and renewed hope for three women.
Fern has a green thumb for growing healing herbs, but longs for love to bloom in her life. Then the next-door neighbor s oldest son, Abram, comes running into Fern s kitchen seeking help for his little sister. The crisis soon leads to a promise of romance until mistrust threatens to end the growing attraction.
Nearby, Hannah runs her parents bed and breakfast, Paradise Inn but her life feels nothing like Paradise. She longs for a man of integrity to enter her life, but never expected him to knock on the front door looking for a room. Will she be able trust Stephen with her future once she discovers his mysterious past?
When a storm blows a tree onto Eve s farmhouse, she has little choice but to temporarily move her family into her parents home. Outside of cooking together in the kitchen, Eve and her mother can t agree on anything. But this may be just the recipe for hope in healing old wounds.
Three Amish stories each celebrating love, family, and faith all taking place in a tight-knit community where the kitchen truly is the heart of the home.
Also Includes Reading Group Guide and 45 Old Order Amish Recipes
Fans of Amish fiction will find triple the enjoyment here thanks to this gathering of novellas in one book. Publishers Weekly for An Amish Wedding
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New stories from three best-selling Amish fiction authors.
A Recipe for Hope-Eve Bender and her family are forced to move in with her parents for two months while the house is being repaired. Not an easy task-loading up husband and three teenage boys in their rumschpringe to grandma and grandpa's house. Eve and Benjamin have been raising their children according to the Ordnung, but they've also allowed some liberties that Eve is certain will create some friction. Can peace reside in this house of old and new?
A Spoonful of Love-Hannah King is determined to prove that she can run the Paradise Inn Bed & Breakfast and take care of her parents without anyone else's help. But when Stephen Esh, a bachelor from Sugarcreek, Ohio, comes to stay, can Hannah see past her stubbornness to find true love brewing in her kitchen?
A Taste of Grace-Amish herbalist, Deborah "Fern" Zook knows that life began in a garden; she just wishes God would plant a suitable man in her life. When the handsome and brooding Abram Fisher arrives at her door with a sick child in his arms, it seems as though Fern has gotten her wish, but how do two different personalities entwine to grow a faithful love?