PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
Featuring many of the beloved characters from Sylvia Price’s bestseller, The Christmas Arrival, as well as a new cast of characters, Amish Love Through the Seasons centers around a group of teenagers as they find friendship, love, and hope in the midst of trials.
Tragedy strikes a small Amish community outside of Erie, Pennsylvania when Isaiah Fisher, a widower and father of three, is involved in a serious accident. When his family is left scrambling to pick up the pieces, the community unites to help the single father, but the hospital bills keep piling up. How will the the family manage?
Mary Lapp, a youth in the community, decides to take up Isaiah’s cause. She enlists the help of other teenagers to plant a garden and sell the produce. While tending to the garden, new relationships develop, but old ones are torn apart. With tensions mounting, will the youth get past their disagreements in order to reconcile and produce fruit? Will they each find love? Join them on their adventure through the seasons!
My Review:
I enjoyed reading this book in the “Amish Love Through the Seasons” series. The main characters are a group of young Amish friends who take on a compassionate project: Growing a vegetable garden in order to sell the produce and apply the money to the medical bills for Isaiah Fisher, who is a widower who has been injured in a serious accident. Although we follow this story through the viewpoint of different characters, the main character, Mary, was the one who drew me into the story. She’s an interesting mix of wisdom and immaturity and hasn’t yet become interested in romance. But just as spring is in the air, love is beginning to bloom among the young men and women in this group of friends. But with romance can also come conflict, and it will take all of Mary’s insight to soothe hearts and keep their garden growing.
I’m eagerly looking forward to reading the next book in this series.
Be aware that this is a novella-length story, not a full novel.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Now an Amazon bestselling author, Sylvia Price is an author of Amish and contemporary romance and women’s fiction. She especially loves writing uplifting stories about second chances! Sylvia was inspired to write about the Amish as a result of the enduring legacy of Mennonite missionaries in her life. While living with them for three weeks, they got her a library card and encouraged her to start reading to cope with the loss of television and radio, Sylvia developed a new-found appreciation for books. Although raised in the cosmopolitan city of Montréal, Sylvia spent her adolescent and young adult years in Nova Scotia, and the beautiful countryside landscapes and ocean views serve as the backdrop to her contemporary novels. After meeting and falling in love with an American while living abroad, Sylvia now resides in the US. She spends her days writing, hoping to inspire the next generation to read more stories. When she’s not writing, Sylvia stays busy making sure her three young children are alive and well-fed.