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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A maud learns a house through its wash. Katie Beiler has done three households in three years, and she has never once been wrong about that. She comes to the Fishers on the first Monday in December, with the fire under the copper before it is properly light. The wash house has a gas engine that starts on the second pull, and that is the first good thing anybody tells her about that household without meaning to. By the second Monday she knows more about the family than is good for her. A hired girl is supposed to see nothing and say nothing, and Katie has built three years of work on being very good at exactly that. Samuel Fisher keeps the books for his father's store. He is the one who works out what she has noticed - and he is certain, from the first week, that she has already told somebody. What neither of them has counted on is that having seen a thing makes a duty, and that silence does not settle it. If it is going to be said, Katie means to be the one who says it: at her own moment, in her own order, to the right person first. A closed-door Amish Christmas romance about service, secrets and a confession made on her own terms. Faith, family and a gentle happy ending in the weeks before Christmas. Book 4 of Stonebridge Amish. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sadie Quinn has forty-seven dollars and fifty cents to her name, which is what ten years over a treadle comes to after the ticket and the trunk. She is spending all of it on a man she knows only by letter. Wes Calder runs cattle on a claim at the north end of Cedar Bend. His letters are honest about the work, the water, the winters and what he cannot promise her, and she has read them enough times to know the hand. What the letters never mention is a clock. There is a date running against that claim, there is a man in town who would like it to run out, and a wife living on the land is the strongest proof of good faith the land office recognises. Sadie works that out for herself in the first week, and it lands the way it was always going to land: she came two thousand miles to be married, and she has arrived as a signature. Wes is not a swindler. He is a man who was so afraid of being accused of marrying for a form that he said nothing at all, and so made the accusation true. Neither of them is any good at saying a thing while it is still small. A clean, closed-door mail-order bride western about a homestead claim under contest, a deadline that never made it into the letters, and a seamstress who has to decide what her own word is worth. Faith, grit and a hard-won happy ending. Book 4 of Brides of Cedar Bend. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The winter ferry to Little Mott Island stops on the first of March - unless the state gets a second licensed operator's name on a one-page form. Joris Vidler has asked everybody he can think of. Everybody has said no. Linnea Wyeth moved to the island for the rent: six hundred a month, a woodstove she keeps going herself, and a jar over the stove with the whole margin in it. Every school morning she crosses with her son, who is nine, and says the minutes out loud - the same numbers every time, because counting is the only part of it that is his. If the boat stops, the island children go to the mainland for eleven weeks, and so does the only life she has managed to build since she lost her husband. There is nobody on that island with a ticket. That is what she tells Joris, and it is true, and it is not what he asked. Because in a box in the attic cupboard, under the papers from the funeral home, there is a master's license with her own name on it - paid for in installments by a man who wanted her never to be at anybody's mercy. Joris does not want a partner, only a name on a form. Linnea has not taken a helm since the April before her husband died. One of them is going to have to say yes to something much bigger than a form. A clean, closed-door small town coastal romance about a widow, a ferryman, a boy who counts everything, and one hard Maine winter on the water. Island community, courage and a happy ending. Book 3 of The Inn at Gull Harbor. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There is a bus ticket in the tin on the shelf, expired, filed with the school receipts. Lena Yoder has twice come close to using one, and twice she has not. She teaches the one-room school. Fourteen children walk between one and three miles in weather that cannot decide, and the stove she cleaned in November still pushes smoke back into the room every time the wind comes off the river. Then the stone bridge fails its inspection, and Stonebridge has to choose. The county will happily put a new road through - a road that opens the district to everything on the other side of it. Or the district pays for the bridge itself, which is money nobody has. Tom Carrick is the county's bridge inspector, an Englischer who takes the trouble to learn how her name is actually said. He is decent, he is interested, and he keeps his distance - and Lena's answer to him never once wavers. Mahlon Stoltzfus is the carpenter who thinks the arch can be carried, and who draws it full-size on ply in carpenter's pencil to prove it. Staying was never something Lena chose. It was only something that kept not happening - until the road is open, the map is in somebody else's hands, and she has to decide it out loud. A closed-door Amish romance about a failing bridge, a road that would open a closed district, and the difference between staying and choosing to stay. Faith, community and a hard-won happy ending. The final book of the series. Book 5 of Stonebridge Amish. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The letters told Hannah Roth the truth about all three children - their names, their ages and exactly what each of them was like. What the letters never mention is who had written them. She is the eldest of nine from Pennsylvania, and she has never in her life been in a room she could sit down in alone. She applied for this with her eyes open: a widower, three children, a parsonage at the far end of a territory, and work she already knows how to do. Caleb Voss lost his wife, and with her the two things he had always been able to do. He cannot get a word down on paper any more, and he can barely stand up in front of a congregation. The church board at Cedar Bend does not know that yet. So the letters are honest - every word of them true, and not one word of them his. They came from a twelve-year-old boy named Micah and his nine-year-old sister, who wanted their father to have somebody, and who wrote to an advertisement he had never dared to place. Hannah arrives to a house that has been running on children's courage for three years. What she has to work out is whether a family assembled by its own children can be a marriage - and whether a man who cannot yet put his name to a thing on paper can still mean it. A clean, closed-door mail-order bride western about grief, three children who took matters into their own hands, and a marriage that has to be chosen twice. Faith, family and a hard-won happy ending. The final book of the series. Book 5 of Brides of Cedar Bend. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The night roster wanted a signature at the bottom of it, and by the time the lamp was lit there was nobody in the orderly room but Oren Vale. He signed it. He signs everything. Ninety men is the establishment of that station and there have not been ninety in it since the Sixth month. Sixty-three fit: four in the sick room, nine in the ground, and fourteen sent down to Awl Ridge. The Ascendant lends rank. It never lies, it never says everything, and it holds to its terms exactly. The first degree runs a term of twelve months from acceptance, and its whole effect is set out in one paragraph with nothing left out of it. The security is not on the wall. It is behind the wall, in Haldrey, where the crop of a district goes to the Ascendant and not to the parish. That is in paragraph four. He does not read paragraph four to the end. Colonel Hale needs the upgrade and is not paying for it. Beck taught him the whole trade of that station and is the man he finally tells things to, months late. And in Haldrey a sheet comes round for signature, and the name at the top of it is his mother's. A military progression fantasy with a god tier system that lends instead of giving: every degree priced in writing, every cost with a name attached, and not one free rank. Book 1 of The Ascension Debt. One continuous account across five books, read in order.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Pelican Reach post office closes on the first of November. In a drawer in the back room, the woman who has run it since 1974 has kept forty pieces of mail from the fall of the storm - sealed, undelivered, and never opened. Tessa Jessamy prints almost everything that gets printed in Pelican Reach, on a 1962 Heidelberg press upstairs from the old Western Auto. When Yolanda Quenby, eighty-one and bound for her daughter's in Savannah, hands her the box and asks her to decide what happens to it before the truck from Columbia comes, Tessa takes all forty. The rule says they go to Atlanta, where a stranger opens them. Bitsy Lamar wants to read the names out at the volunteers' reunion. Ivey says it is other people's mail. And one of the envelopes is from Royce Dellamy to his wife. Another is from Adam Ko, a structural engineer from Seattle who gave six weeks to rebuilding the town dock and afterward wrote one letter - to the people of the town dock. The thank-you card Tessa sent him came back marked moved, left no address. His name is on the reunion list. He is coming. And Tessa, who has never in her life read a thing that was not hers, has read his. A clean, closed-door southern coastal romance about lost letters, a small town saying goodbye to its post office, and a woman who has to learn to say out loud what she has only ever set in type. Community, courage and a happy ending. Book 4 of Pelican Reach. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eight years ago Levi Yoder left Stonebridge, and the district agreed what to think of him. Anna Schrock has never had cause to change her mind - until he comes back and starts baking a mile and a quarter up the north road. Anna lights the bake-house fire at twenty past three in the morning, the way her grandmother lit it and her mother lit it, and she has never been given a reason for the hour. She bakes for the store at the crossroads. She is good at it, and she is the only one left who is. Levi came back in January with a slate-roofed shed and an oven that runs hot. He does not explain himself to anyone. He does not ask to be let back in. He simply puts his bread in later than anybody would, because that is what that oven needs. The district has a word for what Levi was under for eight years, and the word did not stop being true when he drove back down the lane. Bishop Amos Yoder must decide what is owed and by whom, and he has never once enjoyed that part of it. Anna has held on to her judgement because letting go of it would feel like a betrayal of everyone who stayed. What she has not counted is what the holding costs her - and it is not costing him nearly as much. A closed-door Amish romance about judgement, two ovens, and a homecoming the whole district has an opinion about. Faith, forgiveness and a hard-won happy ending. Book 3 of Stonebridge Amish. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Isolde Amberg prices other people's gold for a living. At ten past eight on an ordinary morning a pink carbon comes across her own counter: a resize. Her husband's wedding band, taken down from a twelve to a five and a half - which is her size, and is not her ring. She drops her own band over the mandrel to be sure, because a mandrel is a steel cone with numbers on it and it is the least interpretive object in the building. Then she puts the ticket back on the mat and unsquares it, because a squared ticket is a ticket somebody has been looking at. She does not leave with a row. She leaves with an inventory: what is hers, what is his, what is nobody's. Twenty years fits in a card index. Gareth has the ring altered back. Then remade. Then buys a new one. All three are rings. It costs him something only on the day he takes her valuation of their twenty years and does not argue a cent of it. And she takes the table at the auction rooms, and then the shop, and puts six brass screws through her own name into the plugs of 1974. A closed-door later-in-life marriage-in-crisis romance about a valuer who can price anything except her own twenty years, a husband who thought nobody would check, and a woman who starts again on her own. That is the happy ending, and the book means it. Book 5 of Marriage on Paper. Each book follows a different couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nora Hale sold everything she owned except one trunk, and married a man on the strength of four letters of four lines each. She had bought wrapping paper by the pound for three years, because that is how her husband bought it and a tool shop wraps everything in newsprint. Breaking a bundle open on her sister's kitchen table in March, she came to a weekly out of Helena that was seven months old, and she read it because it was in her hands. Gideon Ammons is the blacksmith at Cedar Bend, Montana Territory. His letters are four lines long and they arrive on time. They say what the work is, what the house is, and what he can offer, and not one word more than that. She takes them for reticence. She is a widow who travels light on principle and she has decided that reticence is survivable. What she does not know yet is why the letters are short - that print turns under his eyes and iron never has, and that everything he has not been able to write down he has been saying for years in what he makes. A clean, closed-door mail-order bride western about a marriage begun on four short letters, a man who says everything with his hands, and a widow who came west with one trunk. Faith, courage and a happy ending. Book 1 of Brides of Cedar Bend. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - She has run her father's mill alone since she was seventeen. The one man who understands what it needs lives on the other side of the bridge. Miriam Lantz can hear when the stones are running badly, and she can smell a bad sack before she has it off her shoulder. What she cannot do is tell her father that the mill is failing. Jonas has refused to change anything about it for twenty years, and he has not much time left in which to be stubborn. Then the offer comes down the lane from Hollow Run, carried by Eli Bontrager - the miller's son from the district where the Ordnung sits lighter. He did not think the offer up. He is only the one who had to bring it, and stand in the doorway while she read it. Stonebridge keeps a stricter line than its neighbour, and every family in the district knows exactly how far a girl may walk with a young man from the other side of the bridge. Bishop Amos Yoder knows it better than anyone, and he takes no pleasure in carrying it. Miriam has spent her whole life doing what was asked of her without being asked twice. The trouble is that she has begun to think the offer is a good one - and that thinking so makes her disloyal twice over: to her father, and to the district that raised her. A closed-door Amish romance about duty, a failing mill, and a courtship two districts have to agree to. Faith, family and a gentle love story with a hard-won happy ending. Book 1 of Stonebridge Amish. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rebekah Esh has kept the hives of three families since she was nineteen, and she has never once had to ask any of them for anything. The child who will not speak is a different kind of keeping. The lid of the third hive comes up hard at the back and easy at the front, and Rebekah knows what that means before she has it clear of the box. Foulbrood does not stay in one hive. It takes the frames, the boxes and the season with it, and it takes them quietly. Daniel Weaver mends wheels a mile from her orchard. His wife is buried at the top of the meadow and his daughter Lena has not spoken since the funeral - not to him, not to the school, not to the bishop who came and sat with his hat on his knee and waited. So the district does what the district does. Somebody suggests that Rebekah, who has time and no household of her own, might sit with the girl in the afternoons. Rebekah says yes before she has thought about it, because saying yes is the only way she knows how to be of use. What she has never noticed is that carrying everything for everybody is its own kind of pride, and that a woman who never asks leaves no room for anyone to give. Lena works that out before she does. A closed-door Amish romance about grief, bees, a silent child and a second chance neither of them went looking for. Faith, community and a gentle happy ending. Book 2 of Stonebridge Amish. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The wedding was paid for. The hall, the dahlias, three tiers of cake from her mother's bakery. Then, twenty-two days out, the bride called it off - and Nina Faye asked the carpenter to marry her instead. Nina is the one this town calls. The Legion rolls, the key to the hall, the numbers for somebody else's reception - she is always the contact, and nobody finds that remarkable, including her. So she knows exactly what the cancelled Mayhew wedding costs. Four thousand two hundred dollars her mother will hand back out of an account with an oven in it. A week of October that is thirty-one percent of the inn's autumn. And eight pages in Coastal Living, which will only run if there is a wedding. Danby Bramwell has lived in Gull Harbor two years and has never once been let in on anything. He does the Trundys' ramp on a Tuesday and does not bill them, and Nina has never once seen him hurry. When she asks him, with four sets of ears listening, he says yes - for reasons of his own. Now there is a hall to fill, a dress to fit and a photographer booked for the morning. And Nina, who has spent her whole life keeping other people's plans from falling through, has to decide what she will say in front of a hundred and six guests on the fourteenth of October. A clean, closed-door small town wedding romance about a woman who fills every gap, a carpenter from away, and a marriage of convenience that stops being convenient. Community, family and a happy ending on the Maine coast. Book 4 of The Inn at Gull Harbor. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cora Ellery answered the neatest advertisement she had ever read. It was written by two people in Cedar Bend who had never asked the man whose name was at the bottom of it. She taught at a school in Massachusetts for ten years and boarded there, and a friend put the paper in her hand in September as a joke. She did not treat it as one. She wrote three times, in good faith, and was answered. So she gave up her post, sold up, and came two thousand miles. She got off at the depot at Cedar Bend with her boxes on the boards behind her, and there was nobody on the platform, because the man she had come to marry had never been told what train - or, as it turns out, anything at all. Jim Marsh is the sheriff. He knows the law the way other men know a road home, and he does not know himself nearly as well. He is also the only person in that town who was not in on it. The stationmaster and the widow who keeps the boarding house are not sorry. They have watched him for three years and they think they have done a good thing. Cora has spent her whole life believing that being chosen is the proof - and now she has been chosen by a town, by a committee, by everyone except the one man it was supposed to be. A clean, closed-door mail-order bride western about an advertisement nobody asked for, a town that meant well, and a woman who has to work out the difference between being chosen and being decided about. Faith, honesty and a hard-won happy ending. Book 2 of Brides of Cedar Bend. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ruth Ansel weighed nineteen letters on her father's counter balance at half past ten at night, because her hands wanted an occupation. Two ounces, six drams and forty grains, over four months. She is an apothecary's daughter from Cincinnati. She mixes, she weighs, and she keeps to the measure - in powders, in speech, and in what she lets herself want. It has never once failed her. Doctor Nathaniel Thorne of Cedar Bend writes long letters and honest ones. He tells her what the practice is, what the winters do to it, what he can and cannot promise, and how far the nearest help lies. Nineteen letters in four months, and not one evasion in any of them. There is one thing he has left out. Not a lie - an absence, in a life he otherwise set out in full, and everybody in Cedar Bend knows the shape of it and nobody says so in front of him. Ruth marries him on the strength of the letters and finds a practice that needs her hands, a town that is careful around her husband, and a measure of her own that will not stretch to cover this. Keeping to the measure has always been how she loves people. It turns out to be the one thing that cannot help him. A clean, closed-door mail-order bride western about a marriage of convenience built on honest letters with one gap in them, an apothecary's daughter who measures everything, and a doctor carrying a past he never wrote down. Faith, courage and a hard-won happy ending. Book 3 of Brides of Cedar Bend. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thora Quintrell writes down what can be proved and leaves out what she only knows. In eight years she has never given anybody a reason to know where she stopped. She works marine claims out of Portland and has not taken more than four days off at a time in all that time. Then the baker calls: her father, the Gull Harbor harbormaster, has sat down on the wharf twice in one week - and the co-op audits the harbor this summer. So she takes three weeks, a room at the inn and a drop-leaf table, and asks to see the berths. Her father has kept every mooring for forty years in pencil, in a composition book nobody else on earth can read. He will not let her photograph it. He would rather she stayed at the inn than heard him on the stairs. And there is a spray bottle in his glovebox that neither of them mentions. Caspian Nyland is the other thing she does not mention. He fixes engines at Rand's yard, he still has the one slip that has never been for rent, and he is the man who asked her a question in a truck on the day she left at nineteen. The count is a job with a beginning and a deliverable. The seven things that turn out to be wrong with it are not the kind you can put in a report. A clean, closed-door second chance coastal romance about a harbormaster's daughter, a father too proud to ask, and a Maine summer that was only supposed to last three weeks. Family, community and a hard-won happy ending. Book 2 of The Inn at Gull Harbor. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Reach House has twelve bedrooms on paper. Lark Chase counted: six she can honestly rent. The boat parade is four weeks away, and Bitsy Lamar has already told half the coast there will be a light in every window. Lark ran the front desk of an inn with forty beds and a spa for six years. Then her mother - the rector of St. Jude's, who fixes outboards and vestment presses and never argues with arithmetic - leased the old house at the end of the ridge road on the church's behalf, and called to say she had done something. The lease runs to the first of January. After that the house has to pay its own first quarter in advance, or it goes to a buyer. It is forty-nine degrees inside, the fuse box is from 1974, and the only warm bed is a small room under the roof that Lark has quietly kept for herself. Orsino Quillane lives on his boat at the town dock, wires fourteen parade boats every year for nothing, and will fix the heat only for supper. Then the motel by the bridge loses its water main, and nine people in five parties come up the ridge road with their suitcases and a cat - and there are four bedrooms to put them in. Lark has always given her place away before she knew whether she wanted it. This Christmas, in a full house with one room too few, she will have to ask for something for herself. A clean, closed-door southern Christmas romance about an old inn, a marine electrician who will not take money, and a woman learning to want a room of her own. Community, family and a happy ending. The final book of the series. Book 5 of Pelican Reach. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At nineteen, Ivey Rooks signed her name twice at her father's kitchen table, and the family's Sister Sound shrimp license went to a company in Savannah. She was on the bus the next morning. Twenty years later she is a senior adviser in Atlanta, paid to help rooms full of executives find out who pays for a hard decision. Then a letter she carries in her bag for twelve days before she opens it tells her the license is for sale - two hundred and forty thousand dollars, and Pelican Reach has until the twenty-ninth of September to buy it back before an outside buyer does. The whole island got the same letter. Everybody has been waiting to see whether she would come. Six boats fish Sister Sound, and the five families still on the water could not find that money between them if they sold the boats. Ivey knows how to build the options and the numbers under them. What she does not know is how to walk into Lamar's without going red to the hairline - or what to say to Gaultier Pemberly. He was her father's deckhand. He stood in the back-porch doorway the night she signed and did not say a word. He has not said one word about her in twenty years, and now he is out on the Jubilee every morning at four - with the storm season coming. A clean, closed-door southern coastal homecoming romance about a woman who left, a shrimper who stayed, and a small town deciding whether to let her help. Community, forgiveness and a happy ending. Book 2 of Pelican Reach. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - June Dellamy has done her family's boatyard books every Thursday night for eight years, for nothing. Now her mother has given the yard to her and her brother, in halves - and her brother has a buyer. June designs how information moves through a bank in Charlotte, and she built the yard's whole system herself three weeks after her father's funeral. It has never needed an owner field. Now it has two names in it, and a letter of intent for one million one hundred thousand dollars that expires on Labor Day. Ward is not the villain. He has a balloon payment due on the first of October, two children, and a spreadsheet he is not ashamed to show her. The deed is fifty-fifty: neither of them can sell without the other, and neither can keep it alone. Isaac Verrill has run Dellamy's for seven years. He has thirty-one keys on his belt and his name on nothing. The buyer wants the land delivered free of all tenancies, occupancies, vessels and equipment - the railway, the men, her father's boat under its tarp at the back of the big shed, and him. He sends June his work tickets every Sunday, and in all that time they have exchanged perhaps forty words that were not about hours. This summer she is going to have to find out what the yard is worth - and who. A clean, closed-door southern coastal romance about an inheritance, a brother and sister on opposite sides of a deadline, and the man who kept the yard running while nobody was looking. Family, work and a happy ending. Book 3 of Pelican Reach. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tamsin Keele has signed whatever the firm put in front of her since she was twenty-five. Then a forwarded bill arrives for an address she has never heard of, and the lease behind it has been running for four years, and her husband's name is on it next to another woman's. Unit 3, a four-unit brick on the south end. R. Keele and N. Aarons, both signatures, both on the original. Tamsin has drawn every building that carries the firm's name and none of them carries hers - the permits do, and it takes her until that week to understand what that is worth. She leaves the house and the practice on the same day, and has her name taken off the policy and the partnership. What is left is a third floor over a hardware store, one job, no staff, and a stair thirty-one inches wide. Rhodes offers her half the firm. Then all of it. Then his own resignation. Every one of them is a thing he is handing over, and not one of them is a thing he is doing. The firm's largest client makes his own decision, out loud, for reasons he is willing to say in a room. And Tamsin finds that the answer she has been afraid to give is not even difficult. A closed-door marriage-in-crisis romance about a secret lease, a wife who signed everything and owned nothing, and a woman who ends the book with her own name on a board in the weather. Not every grovel is enough, and this book says so. Book 2 of Marriage on Paper. Each book follows a different couple and can be read on its own.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Rebekah Esh has kept the hives of three families since she was nineteen, and she has never once had to ask any of them for anything. The child who will not speak is a different kind of keeping. The lid of the third hive comes up hard at the back and easy at the front, and Rebekah knows what that means before she has it clear of the box. Foulbrood does not stay in one hive. It takes the frames, the boxes and the season with it, and it takes them quietly. Daniel Weaver mends wheels a mile from her orchard. His wife is buried at the top of the meadow and his daughter Lena has not spoken since the funeral - not to him, not to the school, not to the bishop who came and sat with his hat on his knee and waited. So the district does what the district does. Somebody suggests that Rebekah, who has time and no household of her own, might sit with the girl in the afternoons. Rebekah says yes before she has thought about it, because saying yes is the only way she knows how to be of use. What she has never noticed is that carrying everything for everybody is its own kind of pride, and that a woman who never asks leaves no room for anyone to give. Lena works that out before she does. A closed-door Amish romance about grief, bees, a silent child and a second chance neither of them went looking for. Faith, community and a gentle happy ending. Book 2 of Stonebridge Amish. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…