Publisher Description:
After spending two years caring for her younger siblings, Maggie Fisher is forced to leave Tomah, Wisconsin to move to Pennsylvania. Has her Datt secretly made plans for her to live with her spinster aunts in hopes they’ll use their matchmaking skills to find her a suitable husband?
Challenged by the pull Henry Schrock has on her, Maggie finds herself drawn to his boyish charm. Will the handsome businessman from Elkhart, Indiana, capture her heart, or will he leave it tattered and torn with lost hopes of finding someone special?
When a new project looms to exploit their quiet Old-Order Amish Community, can Maggie put her feelings aside to help Henry save the town from business tycoon, George Waldorf? Will Maggie’s love of baking not only fill the Apple Blossom Inn with guests but save Willow Springs?
When it looks like love may bloom for her at last, Maggie catches Henry in a compromising situation that forces her to make plans to run back to Wisconsin, instead of following her heart.
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My Review:
Tracy Fredrychowski might be considered a more recent newcomer among Amish authors, but she has quickly become one of my favorites. That was confirmed again as I read this book. The storyline is quite entertaining, but as always with her books, it’s the depth of the characters that draw me into the story.
Maggie Fisher is compassionate and loves her family deeply. She’s willingly assumed care of her siblings after the death of her mother. Her dad, however, thinks it’s past time for Maggie to find a husband. Maggie’s strong, forthright personality has scared away any suitors in their community, so her dad sends her to live with her great aunts in Willow Springs. There she goes to work at the Apple Blossom Inn, and finds her employer has an even stronger personality than Maggie. Henry and Maggie are instantly attracted to each other, but misunderstandings seem to keep them apart. Maggie’s two matchmaking aunts, Lizzie and Teena, decide to help the couple decide they are perfect for each other, and that added some extra interest to the story.
It was fun watching Maggie change and grow during the course of this story, and Henry’s charm made me smile. It’s always great to read a story based on faith, love, and trust.
About Tracy Fredrychowski
Tracy Fredrychowski is a country girl, author, homesteader and everything simple living. She has a passion for writing about the simpler side of life, much like the life she lived growing up in rural Pennsylvania.
Her life has always been intertwined with the Amish, and it’s only fitting that she has a genuine passion for their simplicity, sense of community and God-centered lives.
Growing up in Northwest Pennsylvania she spent her childhood immersed deep in Amish Country. The clip-clop of horse and buggy woke her each morning as Amish men drove past her childhood home on their way to work. As a young woman, she was traumatized by an Amish murder that involved a family member and changed her life forever.
Even though she currently lives in South Carolina her travels take her through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin’s Amish Country every year. During those stops, she researches the communities she visits and prides herself on writing Amish fiction that truly represents the Amish culture. She considers herself very fortunate to have made friends in those communities and values the information they share and wants nothing more than to represent their lifestyle as accurately as possible.