A Simple Amish Christmas by Vanetta Chapman

Author: Vanetta Chapman

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Pages: 282

Release Date: 10/1/10

When there is an accident at home, Annie rushes home from the big city where she's been living with her aunt and going to nursing school. Eager to help her father, Annie is willing to do whatever is necessary to make sure he's taken care of? But how can she do that when her family doesn't know she is now an RN? Will the Amish community accept her as a nurse? Will she be able to fit back into the Amish community she has been homesick for?

Samuel is a farmer by day and helps with the sick in the Amish community by night. Wrestling with his own demons from the past, Samuel is surprised to see Annie Weaver all grown up. When he sees her copious medical notes on her father, Samuel suspects Annie has a secret of her own.

A simple Christmas is all the two wish for, but with unexpected births, ill children, unanswered letters, farms to run, weddings to plan, and a sick father to attend to, simplicity is not easy to find. Annie has many difficult decisions to make. 

Chapman takes the reader into the Amish community with all of its intricacies and simplicity combined. Her writing style made the book easy to read.  Although I've not read other books by this author, I look forward to reading more.

Thanks to Abingdon Press for my Reader's Copy.

Long Time Coming by Vanessa Miller

Deidre and her husband Johnson have a wonderful life. Her husband adores her. Her aspiring career as a principal keeps her on her toes. The only thing missing is the one thing they want the most.

Kenisha is a mother of three struggling to survive. She wonders why she allowed herself to get to where she was. She blames her mother. Her dead baby's daddy. And now this? How can she handle one more thing?

Deidre and Kenisha have no idea what it is going to mean when their lives intersect over a simple mixup with Jamal not being picked up from school.

Although it's been a long time coming, their lives will never be the same.

Always the Baker, Never the Bride

Sandra Bricker's website boasts that she is an the award winning author of laugh out loud inspirational fiction. Truer words have never been spoken. My husband kept giving me strange looks as I literally chuckled, chortled, and full out laughed out loud.

Emma Rae Travis is an award winning baker who is given the opportunity to run her own kitchen in a new up and coming hotel turned wedding destination. Her dsyfunctional family tree and Goth like assistant make her an unusual choice to become the head baker for this fine Atlanta establishment.

Jackson Drake is a new hotel owner trying to uphold his late wife's wishes to turn the Tanglewood into a one stop wedding retreat. When his sisters convince him to take a chance on Emma Travis, he knows there is no turning back. Surrounded by bossy women, he wonders what has he gotten himself into? And why is he finding himself comparing Emma to his late wife Desiree?

Eager to try some of Emma's award winning recipes? Curious how Jackson will survive? Need a good laugh? Pick up a copy of Always the Baker, Never the Bride and find the answer to all of your questions. (Okay, perhaps not ALL your questions...but quite a few.)

Thanks to Abingdon Press for my advanced reader's copy.