Jerusha Springer has spent months making the most beautiful quilt anyone in Apple Creek, Ohio has ever seen, and she knows it is going to take first prize at the Quilt Fair in Dalton. The prize money will be her ticket out of the Amish way of life—away from the memories of Jenna, the daughter she lost a year ago and Reuben, her tormented husband, who has been missing since Jenna's death.On the way to the fair, Jerusha gets caught in the Storm of The Century. An accident leaves her trapped ...

• A young girl buried in the woods for forty years...• A desperate killer loose in the village...• A mysterious quilt and a golden ring...Jenny Hershberger returns to Apple Creek, the village she grew up in. But this is not a happy homecoming. She's been called upon to solve a horrible crime. But will the killer find her first...

ISLANDS: Far On The Ringing Plains INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTSIn the spirit of The Thin Red Line, Hacksaw Ridge, Flags of our Fathers and Pearl Harbor.Realistic. Gritty. Gutsy. Without taking it too far, Craig and Pura take it far enough to bring war home to your heart, mind, and soul. The rough edge of combat is here. And the rough edge of language, human passion, and our flawed humanity. If you can handle the ruggedness and honesty of Saving Private Ryan, 1917 or Dunkirk, you...

This is the complete box set of the Apple Creek Dreams series and The Paradise Chronicles series. Books include: A Quilt For Jenna, The Road Home, Jenny's Choice, The Amish Heiress, The Amish Princess and, The Mennonite Queen.

An Amish Christmas Blessing invites you into the heartwarming story of Abigail Harris, a fourth-generation member of the Amish Hirschberg family separated from her community her entire life. Through a series of events she arrives unannounced in the San Luis Valley of Colorado at her uncle Jürgen's ranch , an uncle she has never met. Abandoned there by her companion, Abigail finds a place in Jürgen's home and heart. As the holiday season approaches, Abigail embarks on a pro...

This is Volume 1, a Box Set, of The Complete Porch Swing Mysteries series and contains the first three books in the series. The set includes two CHANTICLEER INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FIRST PLACE WINNERS — THE QUILT THAT KNEW and THE BOY IN BLUE DENIM, as well as book three in the series, 3 X 3.

Rachel Hershberger's life in Paradise, Pennsylvania is far from happy. Her papa struggles with a terrible event from the past, and his emotional instability has created an irreparable breach between them. Rachel's one desire is to leave the Amish way of life and Paradise forever. Then her prayers are answered.Rachel discovers that the strange, key-shaped birthmark above her heart identifies her as the heir to a vast fortune left by her Englischer grandfather, Robert St. Clair. If R...

Jenny Springer is the local historian for the Amish community in Apple Creek, Ohio. When Jenny was a child, Jerusha Hershberger Springer rescued her from a terrible snowstorm, and when no trace of Jenny's parents could be found, the Springer family adopted her. Since then, the burning desire in Jenny's heart is to find out who she really is.Then Jenny meets Jonathan Hershberger, a drifter from San Francisco who lands in Apple Creek fleeing a drug deal gone wrong. Intrigued by an Eng...

THE COMPLETE BOX SET OF THE AWARD-WINNING ISLAND SERIES by Murray Pura and Patrick E. Craig!FAR ON THE RINGING PLAINS - CHANTICLEER INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FIRST PLACE WINNER — HEMINGWAY 20TH CENTURY WARTIME FICTION.Three men that had each other's backs and the backs of every Marine in their company and platoon. All three were raised never to fight. All three saw no other choice but to enlist and try to make a difference. All three would never be the same a...

Jonathan and Jenny Hershberger are happily settled in Paradise, Pennsylvania on the farm Jenny inherited from her grandfather. But when Jonathan disappears in a terrible boating accident, Jenny and her young daughter, Rachel, return home to Apple Creek, Ohio to live with her adoptive parents, Reuben and Jerusha Springer.As Jenny works through her grief and despair, she discovers she has a gift for writing. A handsome young publisher discovers her work and, after the publication of h...

It is July of1863 and the terrible Battle of Gettysburg is raging in the little Pennsylvania town. John Wesley Culp has come back to his childhood home, but he is fighting in the Army of Northern Virginia and his friends and family look upon him as a traitor. In his pocket he carries a letter from his best friend, Jack Skelly, a wounded Union soldier who is a prisoner in Virginia. The letter is for Jack's sweetheart, Ginnie Wade, but Culp and Ginnie both die in the battle and the letter ne...

A tender tale of love, loss, and the steadfast hope for redemption.Josie Winters, a once-celebrated country singer, now finds herself in the twilight of her life, struggling with a harsh cancer diagnosis and the bitterness of a life marred by lost opportunities and shattered relationships. She calls her estranged daughter in Texas, only to find cold reality—their bridge is too damaged to be crossed.Enter Wesley James Branson, the ghost of her past—a man who w...