Home Health Nurse Hal Lindstrom is assigned Amish widower John Lapp. She offers to stay with his children while he is in the hospital. Fifteen year old Emma takes care of the household. Her two younger brothers are handling the dairy operation. Hal soon realizes that Emma suffers from depression. Noah is withdrawn, and Daniel is so troubled he sleepwalks outside, looking for his dead mother. Drawn to this needy family, Hal discovers they have a family secret swept under their proverbial Am...

Home Health Nurse Hal Lindstrom is assigned Amish widower John Lapp. She offers to stay with his childdren while he's in the hospital. Fifteen year old Emma takes care of the household. Her two younger brothers are handling the dairy operation. Hal soon realizes Emma suffers from depression. Noah is withdrawn, and Daniel is so troubled he sleepwalks outside, looking for his dead mother. Drawn to this needy family, Hal discovers they have a secret swept under their proverbial Amish rag rug....

Sheriff Stringbean Hooper's job description for sheriff is relaxing while he watches the town out his office window. He leans back in his chair with his feet on his desk and takes it easy. All that changes when the town doctor, Doc Strummer, reports his wife has disappeared. Hooper finds himself in the middle of a crime and a family feud between cattle baron, Mac Sullivan, and the cattle baron's son-in-law, Dr. Strummer. Hooper's only backups are a nervous pig farmer that works as his part...

This story is about an Amish man, Luke Yoder, and a once Amish woman Margaret Goodman. Follow the twists and turns in their lives while they make each other miserable. At the same time they try to carry out their Christmas Traditions for the little boy they both love. Levi threatens to make this Margaret's last visit to keep her away from his son Luke. A terrifying fire sets a girl's dress on fire at the school program, Margaret struggles to save a girl from an icy creek and a Yoder cow ne...

The Amish way of life based on faith, convictions and honesty is entwined in this love story betweeen an English woman and an Amish man. Nurse Hal has copper red hair, a fondness for jeans and owns a copper sedan which is frowned upon by the Amish community. Struggling with her decision to convert to Amish, Hallie realizes if she is allowed to marry John Lapp the worldly possessions she values have to go. John Lapp's patience with Hallie wears thin when she stays upset over his helping a p...

Home Health Nurse Hal Lindstrom is assigned Amish widower John Lapp. She offers to stay with his children while he is in the hospital. Fifteen year old Emma takes care of the household. Her two younger brothers are handling the dairy operation. Hal soon realizes that Emma is suffering from depression. Noah is withdrawn, and Daniel is so troubled he sleepwalks outside, looking for his dead mother. Drawn to this needy family, Hal discovers they have a secret swept under the proverbial Amish ...

Fay Risner has brought Stringbean Hooper to life again with this second story in the Stringbean Series. She hopes her readers will enjoy Stringbean and Theo's trip to California.Looking forward to a journey across country to San Jose, California, Stringbean Hooper and his wife, Theo, have no idea just how much trouble they can get into. Theo considers this trip their honeymoon and a chance to be at the wedding of her brother, Brock. Stringbean has been in one place too long. His itc...

During the Great Depression, Rachel felt lucky to be teaching school in Oklahoma. She was eager to start her second year as soon as summer ended. She tried to think positive. She was one of the lucky few to have a job even though she was sadden by the circumstances everyone in the United States faced. Travelers were on the road going from place to place, looking for work. Migrants were hopping on and off trains and camping in a grove of trees near Rachel's house. She felt nervous when they...

Ellen Carter has been hearing banging noise around the barn for months. Her husband, Jack, insists it must be a loose board blowing in the wind, but he hasn't found the board yet to nail down. One evening, he joked that it might be a ghost doing some carpentry in the barn. That suggestion is enough to make Ellen apprehensive when she has to check the sheep at night during lambing time. She knows that Jack is teasing her, but in the middle of one May night, Ellen can't sleep for the banging...

Join the fun. You are invited to the wedding of Amish farmer John Lapp and Nurse Hallie Lindstrom. Family and friends have gathered to cook, clean and plan. Men pitched the tent for the guests. So put on your bonnet or felt hat, hitch up your buggy and ride by scenic pastures and rolling hlls to Wickenburg, Iowa. Take a seat on a bench next to Hal's folks. They will be glad to explain the ceremony because they came armed with Aunt Tootie's book on Amish customs. You will find a few surpris...

If spring is a season of rebirth and love, Hallie Lapp's farm, at first glance, seems to be the place to be. What she didn't see coming after the birth of her daughter, Redbird, was an abandoned baby dropped off in her buggy as part of the Safe Haven law. She couldn't imagine a runaway girl, Annie Hosteller, showing up on her doorstep, either. Once Nurse Hal is forced to meet the scary men from the Hosteller compound life isn't the same for the Amish community for months to come. In the mi...

Gracie Evans wasn't the only one upset when the Locked Rock, Iowa newspaper editor wantedto compete with big city papers by starting a gossip column. Appearing in the gossip columnwasn't the way Locked Rock citizens wanted to find themselves in print. That didn't stop thenewspaper from selling more copies, because everyone had to find out if they were in thegossip column each week. Shortly after two women were mentioned in the gossip columnthey were murde...