Download for FREE with Kindle Unlimited This is a 10, 000 words CLEAN stand-alone story with an HEA, so no cliff-hangers Leah Pritchard never planned to raise her Amish family by herself.
But with the death of her husband, she has to take on the challenge.
And with four children, it's not so easy, but she stays afloat by midwifing for the women in her community of Schmicksburg, PA.
She becomes concerned that her daughter is too distant, perhaps from depression, so one day she confronts her on the matter.
To her disappointment, she discovers that her daughter, Mary has been fooling around with a young boy outside of the faith, one Richard Brock, and that their actions have resulted in Mary's pregnancy at the age of fifteen.
Now, Leah has to try to fold this rebellious teenage boy into the monotony that is raising a farm.
However, she'll learn that, in order to keep this growing family together, she must accept the reality of what God has presented to her.
---------------------------------------------------------- EXCERPT FROM BOOK The boys were gathered on one side of the barn, all painting with ease and comfort, laughing in the glow of the new morning.
Leah marched up to them with a hard expression on her face.
Boys she yelled before she was fifty yards off.
They turned towards her and put their brushes down at their sides, tipped their hats, and waited for her to come to them.
When she was twenty feet from them she said, Who is he, boys, and don't tell me you don't know, because I know you do.
They all looked at each other wide eyed.
She stopped in front of them and rested her hands on her hips, but did not adjust her wait, kept it evenly balanced between her two black flats.
You boys can make believe that you're pulling the wool over my eye, she said, when you go out and do whatever it is you do in the night.
But you cannot fool the Lord.
She paused, but none of them spoke; only stared at her.
Bartholomew's mouth hung open a little.
Your sister has been l.