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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Come home to Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania – the beloved setting where Beverly Lewis’s celebrated Amish novels began – with new characters and new stories of drama, romance, and the ties that draw people together.

A wrong turn in a rainstorm leads Englisher Amelia Devries to Michael Hostetler–and the young Amishman’s charming Old Order community of Hickory Hollow. Despite their very different backgrounds, Amelia and Michael both feel hemmed in by the expectations of others and struggle with how to find room for their own hopes. And what first seems to be a chance encounter might just change their lives forever.

Because The Fiddler follows Englisher Amelia, a large portion of this book is set in the outside world. It’s interesting following the demands of a professional violin player.

When Amelia’s car breaks down, and she meets Michael, a young Amishman, she ends up going to his Old Order Amish community, Hickory Hollow, with him.

Amelia and Michael are both trying to make difficult decisions in their lives. Despite being from opposite worlds, they are drawn together. After staying in Hickory Hollow for a time, Amelia must return to her world, her parents, her manager and her music. She must go on a European tour, even though her heart isn’t really in it. While she’s touring, Michael spends his time helping work his families farm.

They find each other again after Amelia’s tour, and realize that even though they are from different worlds, they are meant to be together.

The Fiddler is another great Beverly Lewis book you won’t want to put down.

*Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book  in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. My opinions are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Hope Springs is the epitome of small-town life—a place filled with quiet streets where families have been friends for generations, a place where not a lot changes . . . until now.

Janelle Evans hasn’t gone back to Hope Springs for family reunions since losing her husband. But when she arrives for Christmas and learns that her grandmother is gravely ill, she decides to extend the stay. It isn’t long before she runs into her first love, and feelings that have been dormant for more than a decade are reawakened.

Becca Anderson is finally on the trajectory she’s longed for. Having been in the ministry trenches for years, she’s been recruited as the newest speaker of a large Christian women’s conference.

But her husband feels called to become the pastor of his late father’s church in Hope Springs. Will small-town living affect her big ministry dreams?

Stephanie London is married to a doctor in St. Louis and living an ideal life. When her cousin Janelle volunteers to stay in Hope Springs and care for their grandmother, she feels compelled to do the same. It’s a decision that will forever change her.

As these women come together, they soon recognize that healing is needed in their hearts, their families, and their churches that have long been divided along racial lines. God’s plan for them in Hope Springs—and for Hope Springs itself—is bigger than they ever imagined.

“Kim Cash Tate draws us into a world where the dreams, desires, missteps, and matters of the heart we discover mirror our own. She is a master at crafting characters who make you forget you’re reading fiction. By the end of Hope Springs, you’ll feel as if you’re cheering on members of your extended family.” —Stacy Hawkins Adams, bestselling author of Coming Home and The Someday List

Kim Cash Tate is the author of Cherished, Faithful, He
Find out more about Kim, her other books and read her blog at www.kimcashtate.com.avenly Places and the memoir More Christian than African-American. A former practicing attorney, she is also the founder of Colored in Christ Ministries. She and her husband have two children.

My Review:

I really enjoyed reading this book. Hope Springs tells the story of two families that have been neighbors for a couple of generations. So they have a long history together. Even though one family is black and the other is white, in a town that still has a black church and a white church, their families have been close over the years. Their stories are intertwined. Even more so than the younger generation realizes.

As one family helps their matriarch during her illness, the family is drawn closer together. The family next door, going through their own difficulties, is there to help them with whatever they need.

The women start a Bible study in the local diner, that crosses racial and church lines. This Bible study unites the churches and the town, while while gathering around their hurting members.

Hope Springs is a story of love, forgiveness, and unity in Christ’s church, regardless of skin color.

Celebrate the release of Hope Springs with Kim Cash Tate by
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RSVP today and then come back on the 10th … and bring
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*Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book  in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. My opinions are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”