listened on Audible
narrated by Coleen Marlo
Unabridged audio (7:05)2012
304 pgs.
Adult CRF/Romance - Amish
Finished 1/9/2021
Goodreads rating: 4.14 - 860 ratings
My rating: 3
Setting: Contemporary Paradise, PA - Lancaster County
First line/s: "A year ago, Mary Katherine wouldn't have imagined she'd be here."
What I posted on Goodreads: Typical Amish romance set in Lancaster County, but with a number of happenstances and terminologies that don't accurately fit what I've come to understand about current Amish....
My comments: Mary Katherine works with her two cousins and grandmother in Stitches in Time, her grandmother's quilt and craft store where where she is an excellent weaver. Because she has grown up as an an only child with an incredibly, grumpy negative father, she has dragged her heels about being baptized into the Amish community. Now in her mid-20s, she is being sought after by Jacob, who has been a close friend since they were kids. The whole story is about her back-and-forth feelings, his ardent pursuing, and some quite humorous part about him (a bachelor living alone) trying to teach himself to cook. As I noted on Goodreads, there are happenstances and terminologies that don't fit. Calling her parents mom and dad? Wearing jeans and her hair down when she goes to the movies with an Englisher friend? Stuff like that....
Goodreads synopsis: Mary Katherine is caught between the traditions of her faith and the pull of a different life. When Daniel, an Amish man living in Florida, arrives and shares her restlessness, Mary Katherine feels drawn to him and curious about the life he leads away from Lancaster County.
But her longtime friend Jacob has been in love with her for years. He’s discouraged that she’s never viewed him as anything but a friend and despairs that he is about to lose Mary Katherine to this outsider.
Will the conflicted Mary Katherine be lost to the Englisch world, or to Daniel, who might take her away to Florida? Or will she embrace her Amish faith and recognize Jacob as the man she should marry and build a life with?
"You'll laugh and cry right alongside the characters in this story that tests a young woman's faith in Gods's plan for her life." - Loree Lough, best-selling author of more than 80 award-winning books, including From Ashes to Honor, #1 in the First Responders series.)
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