Publisher Description:
Love Is Not for Sale
Full of faith, hope, and romance, this series takes you into the Heart of Amish country.
Despite knowing her parents are getting desperate for their only child to marry and give them grandchildren, Salina Stoltzfus is weary of seeking the perfect match. Every time she thinks she has found “the one,” he marries another.
The best way to forget you are the last woman any man in Havenlee, Indiana, wants to hitch his buggy too is to find something passionate to focus on. When the area is overrun with donations after a tragic storm, Salina suggests opening a consignment shop. The deacon supports the idea and offers his visiting nephew to help set things up.
After the embarrassment of having his fiancée call off their wedding, Seth Weaver takes his mother’s advice to leave Kentucky to stay with his uncle for a while. Unfortunately, Seth knows nothing about building furniture in his uncle’s factory, which is the only reason he agrees to help ready the consignment shop next door—not because of the little chatterbox working inside.
When Salina’s parents are caught meddling in her love life, she comes up with a crazy idea that might gain her some time and space. Could it be the road to happiness is paved with good intentions and epic fails—until we cross paths when the one made especially for us?“
My Review:
I love, love, love books in which the setting is a close-knit Amish community, and I thought the author did a beautiful job of including that in the setting of this book.
In this story, Salina and Seth take center stage as the main characters. I felt sympathy for both. Salina had experienced much disappointment in thinking she had found her “perfect match”, and now she is enduring the embarrassing match-making efforts of her mother. Seth had experienced the humiliation of having his fiancée cancel their wedding three days before they were to be married, and he has moved to a different community to escape the memories and the looks of pity from others. They decide to help each other out by beginning a pretend courtship for as long as Seth stays in their community. But as they get to know each other better, their feelings slowly begin to shift from friendship to something much dearer. Salina and Seth have some ups and downs that make this an interesting story. It was fun to see them unexpectedly discover their “happily-ever-after” after all.
I voluntarily received a copy of this book from the publisher. All opinions are my own.
About the author:
About the author
Raised in Kentucky timber country, Steele is a best-selling
and award-winning author who writes in favor of her rural
surroundings. Winner of the 2022 and 2024 FHL Reader’s
Choice award, Steele has been a welcomed addition to the
Amish genre. Her knowledge and admiration for the Amish
credits her ability to understand boundaries, and customs,
giving her readers an inside view of the Plain life. Her
accidental debut into romantic suspense proves she is a writer
of words and a storyteller at heart. Her books are peppered
with humor, and sprinkled with grace, charming all the senses
to make you laugh, cry, hold your breath, and root for the
happy ever after ending.