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Troubled Tidings: a Christmas novella by Christy Barritt
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA blown tire on a lonely desert road leads to Christmas Eve trouble.Vanishing Ranch chef Dean Burns just needed to pick up a few things for Christmas dinner. When his tire blows on the way home, he assures coworker Kota Perez that they’ll be back on the road in no time.Dean soon realizes the flat tire was no accident, and the simple trip transforms into a terrifying fight for survival... -
The Dead Don't Dance by Charles Martin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsA sleepy rural town in South Carolina. The end of summer and a baby about to be born. But in the midst of hope and celebration comes unexpected tragedy, and Dylan Styles must come to terms with how much he's lost... -
Wreathed in Disgrace by Robin Patchen
Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA famous actress, a protective bodyguard, a festive Christmas season, and a killer...or two...on the loose.Everybody believes movie star Denise Masters abandoned her family to pursue her dream, but the truth is much more complex. For years, she's longed to return to Coventry to repair her relationship with her daughter, but contractual obligations--and fear of being rejected--have kept her away... -
Two Seconds Too Late by Dani Pettrey
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the stark but beautiful wilds of northern New Mexico, a luxury spa and couple's retreat turns into a chilling nightmare when a woman vanishes without a trace, just hours after a public fight with her boyfriend. Worried something sinister has happened, her friends reach out to investigator Riley MacLeod, an expert skip tracer, for help... -
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The Noel Letters by Richard Paul Evans
“The king of Christmas fiction” (The New York Times) returns with a heartwarming, and inspirational new story that explores faith, love, and redemption during the festive Christmas season... -
The Amish Advent Calendar by Naomi Troyer
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFear has plagued Iris for years, but hope fills her heart this Christmas season!Never officially diagnosed, Iris Riehl knows she’s agoraphobic.It started with small things, like the fear of town or strange people, until it intensified into fear of life beyond her homestead. She couldn’t leave the house, go to town or attend Sunday singings.But in her community, she has a secret admirer... -
The Orphan's Amish Christmas by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe ran from the orphanage into the storm. What she found was a home she never dreamed existed.Little Carol has known only loss and loneliness. When the bitter cold drives her into the night, she follows a flicker of light to an Amish farm where warmth, kindness, and the smell of cinnamon bread greet her.Rachel Hauptfleisch sees a frightened girl who reminds her of everything she once longed for... -
Murder at Rochester Park by Catherine Coles
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsTommy and Evelyn Christie are looking forward to a quiet Christmas holiday at the home of Hugh Norton-Cavendish, the 9th Earl of Clifford, who recently married Tommy's cousin, Elise.However the suspicious death of Albert Lewis, a businessman hoping to buy land from Hugh, means the Christmas festivities are quickly over. Tommy is distracted by his sister's new relationship with a man he distrusts... -
An Amish Christmas: December in Lancaster County (An Amish Christmas) by Beth Wiseman, Kathleen Fuller
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsCelebrate Christmas with Four Amish Romances. A Choice to Forgive by Beth Wiseman After Daniel disappeared that long-ago Christmas Eve, Lydia built a life with his brother. But now she's a widow and Daniel has reappeared, asking for forgiveness... -
An Amish Cinderella by Shelley Shepard Gray
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSet in the close-knit Amish community of Apple Creek, Ohio, this sweet Cinderella -inspired novel from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling and award-winning author is complete with a matchmaking pet rat, and will delight fans of heartwarming, wholesome fiction and readers of Charlotte Hubbard, Beverly Lewis, and Beth Wiseman... -
An Amish Christmas at the Apple Blossom Inn by Tracy Fredrychowski, Debra Torres
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo sisters. Two stories. One great Amish Christmas read. Orphaned just weeks before Christmas, the Beiler sisters suddenly discover they could lose their home and what’s worse—each other. To make ends meet, sisters Sadie and Katie are plunged into working at the Willow Spring’s Apple Blossom Inn... -
The Amish Christmas Angel by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKatie is on the cusp of getting engaged when she finds an Englischer hiding in the familye’s barn at Christmas time. It will soon be Christmas and Katie Raber is eager to get engaged but Jacob King doesn’t seem as keen. After courting for more than a year, Katie doesn’t understand his hesitation... -
A True Christmas Miracle by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis Christmas Katie Troyer is hoping for another miracle, but that seems unlikely as her mother’s health battle continues. Katie had been an only child for a very long time, but that all changed six years ago. On Christmas day her mother had brought Susan into the world, their very own Christmas miracle. But this year there isn’t a miracle in sight... -
The Amish Christmas Candlemaker by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWill an Amish candlemaker find love with a carpenter or trouble with a traveling writer this Christmas?Mary Fischer enjoyed her life. She made candles to sell at the flea market, alongside her mother who made lotions and balms, and her father who propagated seedlings... -
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A Heaven Sent Amish Christmas by Mary Lantz
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn Amish man, a difficult choice and a Christmas snow storm that changes everything. The only man Greta loves is in love with someone one else. And each year Lydia Troyer comes home for Christmas destroying Daniels heart all over again. But the hard news this year is, that Lydia is coming home for good and while Greta’s heart is crushed, Daniel's heart is soaring... -
A Frozen Christmas by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn unmarried Amish daughter, a farmer drowning in debt, and a Christmas cold enough to freeze even the warmest of hearts.Martha Raber was about to experience another lonely Christmas without love. Her parents want her to court and find a husband before she is considered too old. However, Martha only had eyes for one man. A man who had been a childhood friend... -
Dreams of Christmases Past by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEmma needs a Christmas miracle now more than ever, but the answer might lie in the past. Four years ago, a heavily pregnant Emma Graber had lost her husband. Emma had known it would be hard to raise her son on her own, she just didn’t know how hard. She hired a farm manager, Daniel, to run the farm in her husband’s stead... -
A Plain and Simple Christmas by Amy Clipston
Take a trip to Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, where you'll meet the women of the Kauffman Amish Bakery in Lancaster County. As each woman's story unfolds, you will share in her heartaches, trials, joys, dreams ... and secrets. You'll discover how the simplicity of the Amish lifestyle can clash with the 'English' way of life---and the decisions and consequences that follow... -
Dead of Night by Brandilyn Collins
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAll words fell away. I pushed myself off the path, noticing for the first time the signs of earlier passage---the matted earth, broken twigs. And I knew. My mouth turned cottony. I licked my lips, took three halting steps. My maddening, visual brain churned out pictures of colorless faces on a cold slab---Debbie Lille, victim number one; Wanda Deminger, number three . . . He'd been here... -
Naomi's Gift: An Amish Christmas Story by Amy Clipston
Take a trip to Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, where you ll meet the women of the Kauffman Amish Bakery in Lancaster County. As each woman s story unfolds, you will share in her heartaches, trials, joys, dreams and secrets. You ll discover how the simplicity of the Amish lifestyle can clash with the English way of life and the decisions and consequences that follow... -
The Englisher by Beverly Lewis
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAnnie Zook is forced by her father, the bishop, to choose between her forbidden art and joining the church, the only life she knows... -
The Christmas Singing by Cindy Woodsmall
After Gideon coldly broke her heart, can the warmth of the season revive Mattie’s hopes? Christmas has always been special to cake decorator Mattie Eash, who was born on the wondrous holiday. Yet the season has lost its appeal in the three years since then, her childhood sweetheart abruptly ended their engagement on Christmas Eve... -
The Sugar Haus Inn by Serena B. Miller
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsOriginally published as Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio. Republished as Love's Journey in Sugarcreek: The Sugar Haus Inn (Book I) ---Back Cover Blurb--- Policewoman Rachel Troyer has always looked after her three elderly Amish aunts, proprietors of a farmhouse inn near Sugarcreek, Ohio. The idyllic town is popular with tourists, who come to sample its famous Amish goods... -
Christmas in Apple Ridge: Three-in-One Collection: The Sound of Sleigh Bells, The Christmas Singing, NEW! The Dawn of Christmas by Cindy Woodsmall
Experience the holidays with the Plain folk of Apple Ridge, Pennsylvania, in these touching novellas centered around love, romance, heartache, and restoration from best-selling author Cindy Woodsmall... -
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The Amish Christmas Cake by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan a Christmas Cake really hold the magic to bring love? Ever since Elizabeth Maas could remember the old widow Zook had gifted a special Christmas cake to a single girl every year before Christmas. The following year, that same girl would be married. Was it myth or magic? Elizabeth firmly believed it was magic... -
A Deadly Amish Betrayal: Amish Cozy Mystery by Samantha Price
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOctogenarian Amish sleuth Ettie Smith is back in this twenty-sixth edition.When Ettie and her sister Elsa-May find a dead body, they discover it is the third victim of a serial killer. Evidence found at the scene suggests the killer is Amish. To clear her friends in the community, Ettie sets out to investigate... -
Denke Gott for Familye at Christmas by Naomi Troyer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen three siblings reunite before Christmas, memories of their troubled childhood come crashing back.John, Sarah, and Anna didn’t grow up in a loving home. Their mother passed when they were still young, and they became targets for their father’s grief, anger and disappointment in life. Unloved, they all moved away as soon as they could... -
Plain Survival by Alison Stone
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe never needed anyone…until he met her.When an Amish youth goes missing, Deputy Caitlin Flagler suspects his disappearance is tied to the “Doomsday Preppers” group that has settled in Hunters Ridge. In digging for the answers, she meets Austin Young, a newcomer who seems to have more secrets than the elusive head of the sprawling “bug out” shelter... -
Ruby's Christmas Miracle by Mary Lantz
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Fearful woman. A Dominating Beau. Her Neighbors Prodigal Son. Can Christmas bring a miracle this year?Simon Troyer has returned home for the first time in six years. Saddened by painful memories, he looks to God to help him find joy again this Christmas.Ruby Mast is shy and reticent. But she wasn’t always that way... -
The False Christmas Love by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Amish girl without a boyfriend, an Amish boy without a girlfriend, two sets of pressuring parents and a secret scheme to give everyone peace over the Christmas holidays.Susie is still unmarried and getting old, at least in her parent’s eyes. As another Christmas comes around and Susie isn’t courting, her parents start to put on pressure... -
Amish Mishaps and Murder by Samantha Price
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOctogenarian sleuth Ettie Smith is back in book #25 of this light-hearted Amish mystery series. When Ettie decides to give Elsa-May an anonymous gift of a kitten, things litter-rally go from bad to worse. Shortly after Ettie's cat-gifting accomplice leaves their house, he ends up murdered. Feline paw-sitively responsible for his demise, Ettie vows to find the killer... -
Amish Dead & Breakfast by Samantha Price
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA newly renovated Amish bed and breakfast, a wedding, and a murder...There’s a new mystery to solve for elderly Amish widow, Ettie Smith.When Ettie and her sister were asked to help out at the bed and breakfast for a wedding, they were speechless. They quickly agreed.The ‘till death do us part’ vows didn’t take long to be tested when the groom was found dead on the library floor... -
Footprints In The Snow by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA storm, a mystery, a miracle.The Troyer family are excitedly preparing for Christmas. This year, they are having guests for Christmas Jacob Troyer's girlfriend, Hannah Byler, and her mother, Esther.However, news reaches them that the worst storm in half a century is on the way to the town of Christmas Hollow. Preparations have to be made... -
What the Bishop Saw by Vannetta Chapman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSomewhere in the Embers Lies the Truth A fire blazes out of control in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, leaving an elderly Amish bachelor dead. Bishop Henry Lapp rushes to the scene, and he learns the fire was no accident. Someone intended to kill Vernon Frey. But who would want to kill Vernon? Well, practically everyone—Amish and Englisch alike... -
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An Amish Second Christmas by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChristmas is a time of celebration for many but for some, it can be a time of sadness and heartache.From the first time Beth Weaver saw the sad little boy playing in the yard across her aunt’s fence, something tugged at her heart. For years to follow Beth looked forward to Second-Christmas because that meant she would see him again... -
Double Blessings at Christmas by Hannah Schrock
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan double blessings happen at Christmas time? Isaiah had his whole life planned; all he needed was to win over the heart of the girl he loved. Isaiah had loved Beth Yoder since he could remember. He knew the shade of her eyes and could trace the lines of her face by heart. He plans to ask her on a buggy ride after Christmas, having finally gathered the courage... -
An Amish Christmas Blessing by Sarah Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChristmas has arrived in Faith’s Creek and Colin Phillips is determined to help his brother, Uri find love. What could go wrong?Colin is trying to fit back into his family’s life after abandoning them years ago. He wants to make sure everyone has a perfect holiday.Dinah Grundun is a dutiful daughter who takes care of her ailing father... -
Cold Threat by Nancy Mehl
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwenty years ago, several people were murdered in Des Moines, and the only evidence left behind was a snowman ornament hanging on a tree on their front lawns. With a suspect behind bars, the killings have come to an end--or so everyone thought. But now crimes with a similar MO are happening in a small Iowa town, and a local detective believes the killer is back and ready to strike again... -
The Vow by D.L. Wood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSome decisions are deadly.Kate’s husband Erik left her a year ago, ending their marriage without warning for a trust-fund twenty-something and her luxurious global-hopping lifestyle. Now Kate is spending one last Christmas at her family’s Smoky Mountains cabin before selling it to raise cash...Categorized as:
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Lancaster Burning Trilogy by Linda Byler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Amish community of Lancaster is being terrorized by barn fires. David and Malinda Beiler’s barn was the first to go. When a second Amish barn burns for suspicious reasons, the Amish grow more restless... -
Mountain Abduction Rescue by Darlene L. Turner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA wildfire threat… becomes a missing person search. A serial arsonist is out for revenge in the Canadian Rocky Mountains—and kidnaps park warden Hazel Hoyt’s son and his camping troop. Now Hazel must team up with the man who broke her heart, firefighter Mitchell Booth, to find the missing boys as wildfires blaze around them... -
High-Stakes Holiday Reunion by Christy Barritt
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA CHILD'S LIFE IS AT STAKE When Christopher Jordan sees the fear in Ashley Wilson's eyes, he knows he can't let her request for help go unanswered. Despite their tumultuous history, he's the only person his ex-fiancée can trust to find her kidnapped nephew... -
All is Bright by RaeAnne Thayne
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsReturn to Hope’s Crossing this Christmas in New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne’s latest heartwarming story of matchmaking at the holidays! Sage McKnight is an ambitious young architect working at her father’s firm who takes on her most challenging client in Mason Tucker... -
The Mockingbird's Song by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Where Is the Hope in Grief for a Young Amish Widow? Sylvia has been nearly paralyzed with grief and anxiety since the tragic death of her husband, father, and brother in a traffic accident. She tries to help in the family’s greenhouse while caring for her two young children, but she prefers not to have to deal with customers... -
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The Thorn by Beverly Lewis
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsLancaster County, with its rolling meadows and secret byways, may seem idyllic, but it is not without its thorns. THE ROSE TRILOGY is the stirring saga of two Amish sisters on the fringes of the church, and the unforeseen discoveries that change their lives. Rose Kauffman, a spirited young woman, has a close friendship with the bishop's foster son... -
Ends of the Earth: A Bug Man Novel by Tim Downs
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsNick must face the realities of lost opportunities and the passing of time as he struggles to protect a mother and her child from agro-terrorists in this latest novel from award-winning author Tim Downs. Dr. Nick Polchak is called to a farm community in eastern North Carolina to investigate a murder... -
Boxes in the Basement by Kathi Daley
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos... -
The Brethren by Beverly Lewis
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAnnie Zook, the Amish preacher's daughter, is caught between two worlds. Living with shunned friend Esther, Annie longs to return to her forbidden art and the idyllic days spent with Englisher Ben Martin, before her father ordered her never to see him again. Stunned when family secrets come to light, Ben determines to solve the mystery of his past... -
The Sound of Sleigh Bells by Cindy Woodsmall
Beth Hertzler works alongside her beloved Aunt Lizzy in their dry goods store, and serving as contact of sorts between Amish craftsmen and Englischers who want to sell the Plain people’s wares. But remorse and loneliness still echo in her heart everyday as she still wears the dark garb, indicating mourning of her fiancé... -
The Christmas Quilt by Patricia Davids
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYears ago, Rebecca Beachy kept her reasons for rejecting Gideon Troyer's marriage proposal a secret. Then Gideon left their Amish community. Now, Rebecca crafts quilts to raise money to cure her blindness. She's also busy guarding her heart against love. Until Gideon returns, at risk of being shunned, to make the winning bid on one of her exquisite quilts...
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