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A metaphor for married life from author Vanessa Carlson... It is the night before Christmas and Aaron has still not returned home. A snow storm suddenly hit while he was out in the hills gathering wood. His wife, Emma, is frantic. She goes out into the wilderness looking for him. They both are lost in the storm, having their lives flashing before their eyes as the weather gets worse. Will they find each other in the storm?
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Jacob was getting old. With his joints being stiff and his breathing ragged, he knew he didn't have much time left on Earth. But before he said his final goodbye, there was something he needed to know: What had happened to Hannah Yoder. Thirty years ago, he had intended to marry her only to have her disappear weeks before the wedding. He had searched for her everywhere, leaving no stone unturned, but still, he had come up empty-handed and after waiting...
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Hannah is a beautiful housewife who is married to an Amish man. While out Christmas shopping she accidentally gets her packages mixed up in a bookstore with a handsome young man named Charles. Charles is a married Englischer with two young children who also lives near the Amish town. Months later they take the same train into the city and bump into each other again. There is an instant attraction between them but neither of them is looking for an...
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A young soldier, Peter, returns home and meets an Amish girl, Lovina, along the way. Lovina is pregnant and fearful of returning home to her Amish family where her judgmental father may want to shun her because she is now pregnant out of wedlock. The chivalrous Peter offers to pretend to be her husband in order for her to get things situated at home but the more time they spend together, the deeper they fall in love. However, Peter has a girl back...
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A near-fatal car accident leaves an unconscious young woman on the doorstep of farmer John in the Amish town of Lancaster. But when she finally awakens, it is with no memory of who she is or where she came from. Karen as she calls herself, has no identity; the only clue to her circumstances is a recurring nightmare of crows swarming her vehicle. With the help of John and his sister Lovina, Karen tries to solve the mystery of her own identity and the...
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Sarah's curly blonde hair isn't the only thing that sets her apart from her Amish community. Twenty-eight and single, Sarah doesn't believe a woman needs to be married in order to be happy. Her terminally ill best friend disagrees, however, and wants Sarah to promise to marry her husband after she dies. Sarah half-heartedly agrees only to make her friend happy. Her friend's husband, Samuel, has made the same agreement with no intention of following...
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With Halloween around the corner, Nettie Coretta was tasked with writing a spooky article for the local paper. Her boss had suggested chalking up a story about the cemetery but Nettie was much more interested in the abandoned Amish farmhouse that stood on top of a hill like a spectator looking upon the town. For years, it had fascinated her but she had never mustered the courage to venture up that hill. There were too many rumors about disappearances...
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