Reeling from an unexpected betrayal, can Sylvia find relief from the echoes of her past…or will they shape her future forever?
Although Sylvia Fisher recognizes that most Old Order Amish women her age spend their hours managing a household and raising babies, she has just one focus—tending and nurturing the herd on her family’s dairy farm. But when a dangerous connection with an old beau forces her to move far from home, she decides to concentrate on a new start and pour her energy into reviving another family’s debt-ridden farm.
After months in rehab, Aaron Blank returns home to sell his Daed’s failing farm and move his parents into an easier lifestyle. Two things stand in his way: the father who stubbornly refuses to recognize that Aaron has changed and the determined new farmhand his parents love like a daughter. Her influence on Aaron’s parents could ruin his plans to escape the burdens of farming and build a new life.
Can Aaron and Sylvia find common ground? Or will their unflinching efforts toward opposite goals blur the bigger picture— a path to forgiveness, glimpses of grace, and the promise of love.
The Harvest of Grace is book three in the Ada’s House series. It is not necessary to read the first two books to enjoy this one. Of course, now I want to!
All Sylvia has ever wanted to do is to run the family farm. Instead, her father brings in someone else to run it. She can’t stay. She just can’t, she finally talks her father into letting her move to another town to help someone else run their farm.
She works on on the farm, to help the owners, as well as to make herself forget the past. Then the owners son comes home wanting them to sell the farm and move to the city with him.
There is much turmoil in the family, though, as Aaron has been in rehab for substance abuse. His father has not forgiven him for leaving the family when they needed him most.
I don’t want to give away what happens, so I’ll stop. I have loved every Cindy Woodsmall book I have read, and The Harvest of Grace is no different. This is the first book, with an Amish story line, I have read that incorporates substance abuse and rehab. Substance abuse and rehab are, unfortunately, a part of our lives now a days. Everyone knows at least one person that has had a problem. The author did an excellent job of weaving this story line into the Amish world.
You can read Chapter One of The Harvest of Grace. Let me know what you think! For more information, visit Cindy Woodsmall.com
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