Bücher von Sarah Amberson

Joanna thought that inheriting her aunt's home in the Amish town would only be a case of signing papers and forgetting about it...Forgetting about the town just as her mother did years ago. But she finds out that the house still needs work and the bakery her aunt owned still employs numerous people.Joanna wants to just sell the assets and get out of the town...but she begins to experience growth in herself that she didn't anticipate. Surrounded by happiness, her former life beckons as her friends and ex-boyfriend beg for her to come back...but a budding romance with one of the bakery employees is pulling at her heart to stay. Will becoming Amish be the thing that Joanna has been needing all her life?

Faith wants nothing more than be in love. But she spends her days matchmaking for her Amish friends, including the disinterested Joanna. She's been widowed for almost six months and is nursing a newborn. But Faith is undaunted and finds what she thinks is a perfect fit for Joanna...and soon finds herself pining for the new stranger that has come to live in their Amish town. Will Faith realize that maybe Joanna isn't ready for a new relationship and that it is time for her to find a marriage partner of her own?

Harry had heard of young women back in the city who would have large weddings with all their friends and family, who would come to see them in their dresses and wish them well, and for a moment he wondered if Katie was expecting something like that. He hoped not, because they wouldn't even have the decent sized gathering of friends most people out west managed to find for their unions. No matter, if she did have a problem with the two mandatory witnesses provided by the justice of the peace, she could try her luck at dragging a few people from the town to join them. Harry almost laughed at the thought. That would be an amusing sight to see. He kept his mirth to himself and his eyes on the road. His new life was about to begin and he hoped he wasn't making a mistake.

Iris becomes a mail order bride if only to escape the clutches of a rich ugly man and the town that is pressuring her to get married. She travels across the country and has agreed to drop off a letter to a farmer who's own mail order bride has decided not to go through with their arrangement. Bored, she decides to read some of the correspondence between the two and becomes fascinated with the cowboy who is writing Eleanor, her fellow mail order bride. When she arrives on the prairie, she hands off the letters to the handsome cowboy and decides maybe he's the one for her. What will happen when Iris' husband-to-be comes calling? Will she stay with the man whose letters she fell in love with or will she go through her arrangement?

Tabitha set down the things she had purchased from the general store on her kitchen table. She pulled out a crisp sealed letter that she had picked up at the post office. The Matrimonial Times, who would have known that would be where she would meet her future husband?Tabitha had thought that her married days were over. Since her first husband, Alexander, had died, she had thought that the rest of her life she would live alone, with no one to call family. But the years had been rough on her and she had begun to feel lonelier than she'd even thought was possible...Until she answers Terrence's advertisement in the Matrimonial Times, the two exchange letter after letter and fall in love with each other's words. They finally meet and marry but en route to their new home in California they encounter a murderous Indian tribe that tries to hunt them down. Will they survive the attack and will their imagined love for one another become more real?

Teresa is an orphan who has the misfortune of being raised by her step-mother and step-sister. They hate her guts so her step-mother does herself a favor and places Teresa with a mail order bride agency. Teresa resists until she gets correspondence with a thirty-five year old farmer who wants a wife to help him on the farm...But on the way out west, she begins falling for the man taking her to meet her new husband. Throughout the long trip, the chemistry develops between the two. Will she keep the reason for her trip a secret as their romance blooms? And will she even go through with her mail order bride obligations?

Penny winced as she took the last step before throwing herself down into the porch chair. She hated walking. She hated doing anything, including living here on the ranch, but what other option did she have?Since her accident, her friends had abandoned her, and she was incapable of doing pretty much anything that she used to do. Everything was painful in some way or other, whether that be emotionally or physically. At this point, it all ran together, and Penny couldn't tell what-was-what. It was just as painful for her to watch her neighbor's daughter ride by on her horse as it was to walk across the porch. She shoved a crutch defiantly with her good foot. Life was fragile, something that many people didn't seem to realize. Penny hadn't realized it until hers had come to an end. One moment she had been riding through the prairie enjoying her day and the next her horse had been out of control and her life had come to a screeching halt. Doctors from several different towns had all had a chance to look at her foot, they had all tried different methods and different cures to fix it, but it had been to no avail. They had no luck at making it even slightly better. If she could only walk normally again, the pain wouldn't be such a burden. She couldn't even take herself to town to help with grocery buying anymore. Even if someone drove her, she couldn't bear the constant staring and whispering of everyone who saw her....Everyone except Rex, the new ranch hand.

Hyacinth desires something she never had as a child...a stable family...orphaned at a young age, she dreams away her days working as a waitress....until she finds a wealthy man who begins showering her with gifts. But she soon finds out he's doing the same thing with another woman and her heart is broken. Instead of drowning in her sorrows, she answers a mail order bride advertisement.

Jacqueline has already had enough tragedy to last a lifetime. She lost her best friend in a tragic accident which her boyfriend Rex blamed himself for. As an atonement, he separated himself from both her and everyone in the town. Distraught with no romantic prospects on the horizon, Jacqueline turns to becoming a mail order bride. She accepts a proposal from Clifton, a handsome cowboy who woos and wins her heart. But Clifton has a secret past. On the run from the law, Clifton warns that their union may be disrupted at any time. To make things even more complicated, her first love Rex has tracked her down and wants to make amends. Will Jacqueline give her first love a second chance or risk losing her second love?

A young Amish man named Jacob gives his grandmother a ride on his buggy so she can visit Mary , an elderly neighbor who is not feeling well. Mary asks Jacob to fix a minor repair in her house, which he does. She is planning a trip to visit a nearby pond, and relive memories of her long-dead husband on their anniversary. In poor health, Mary is determined, but may need Jacob to give her a lift. This would mean he had to give up a long awaited first date with Amy, since Mary's anniversary is the same day, and she knows she probably won't live to see another one...

An Englisch doctor comes to an Amish town to help out during a flu outbreak...Not looking to find romance, he can't help but see a kindred spirit in the beautiful Caitlyn and he becomes drawn to her religious beliefs as much as her pretty face.But despite being rich and successful, the good doctor doesn't think he's good enough for Caitlyn. And some of his fellow suitors agree. Meanwhile, Caitlyn is being forced to choose between a few men that her mother has chosen for her while secretly pining for the freedom in the Englisch world that the doctor represents. Will they overcome the obstacles and follow their hearts?

Lorraine wiped away another tear from her eye with her handkerchief. She almost hated to use the handkerchief. It was another reminder of everything she'd lost already. She looked down at the little blue piece of cloth with pink roses embroidered on the corner. Her mother had helped her embroider a dozen of them when she was only ten years old. Their pink petals looked faded and frayed now from years of use. Her mother had been gone for a whole six years now and her father had followed only days ago. Despite being twenty-three years old, Lorraine still felt quite abandoned by their deaths. It wasn't as if she needed parents to provide for her, but they had always been a part of her life. Her father had always been there for her, and now she was all alone. All alone with only one choice...

Ursula is tired of life on the east coast, living in poverty with her five sisters. She answers a mail order bride ad if only to get away from the desperation of her situation. She arrives and finds her new husband David to be quiet and distant. She's unsure of where she stands with him. He's half-Indian and has abandoned the indian side of his family. But when the Indian Tribe David once belonged to kidnaps Ursula, David is forced to make a decision. He must rescue his bride and come to a reckoning of why he left his past behind.

Laura left her Amish community as she wanted to experience the outside world...But six years later, she's forced to return...as a single mother with a young daughter in tow. Still a beautiful woman, Laura is courted upon her arrival by a handsome farmer named Nicholas. Now, years later, she is forced to return-along with her six-year-old daughter. As Laura reluctantly completes her shunning, she catches the eye of Nicholas, a farmer wanting a wife. Laura, however, isn't so sure she wants to stay in the community let alone begin a relationship with an Amish man. What are her real reasons for returning to the community? Is it to pass her daughter off on relatives so she can live her own life? Or is she truly trying to repent?

Millicent has no way out. Her father is elderly and her brother has moved away...This leaves her alone and vulnerable to the advances of the town sheriff...An old, bald and disgusting man, he stalks her at every turn. Broke and destitute, Millicent sees one alternative out of the town. She decides to become a mail-order bride. She signs up with the agency and heads out west. But the sheriff is obsessed with her...will her future husband be enough to give her the love and protection she needs?

Amy Yoder is a young Amish woman who gets her first teaching job out of town. Thomas has had a crush on her since forever, offers to drive her to and from the school, and their relationship continues to blossom. But a hitch is thrown into the whole thing when he sees one of her fellow Englischer teachers at the school touching her in a seemingly romantic fashion, causing a misunderstanding that could jeopardize their budding romance.

Miriam didn't know what she wanted in life. She put on a false front to Frederick, her second husband at age twenty-five. She realized that any woman would be happy to have him. He was tall. Handsome. But did he make her heart go pitter-patter? No. Maybe she would give it time. That is what the people at the Mail Order Bride agency told her. And the more she got to know him, the more she saw a brokeness in him. And then there was his daughter. A little girl who resembled her own daughter so much. The daughter that she tragically lost only months earlier. But the questions remained in her heart. Is this where she wanted to be? Is this where God meant her to be?

Barbara never thought she would start a family, let alone find someone to spend her life with. She travels out west only to deliver a message then return back home. But when David mistakes her for his mail order bride, she can't help but fall for his shy charms...as well as his orphaned niece. Will Barbara realize that God is answering her prayers and that David and his niece are what she's always wanted?

Teresa has spent years making her family bakery into a success and because of this, her love life has suffered. She's avoided romance since a bad break-up years earlier but secretly she wants to have a family more than anything else...Luke has known Teresa ever since grade school but there was never any romantic attraction. Returning from the Englisch world where he became a teacher, he arrives in the Amish town eager to rejoin the community...and find his soulmate. He reconnects with Teresa and begins to court her...but soon realizes that there is another man, a farmer named Nicholas, after her heart...Will Teresa listen to her friends who tell her play it safe and marry Nicholas. Or will she follow her heart and take her chances on Luke?

Anna is a widowed Amish woman and her daughter Megan is dying from leukemia. She strikes up a sentimental friendship with Finn, a rich Englischer. Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the daughter skates the ice rink, takes in the ballet and sight-sees most of the Englisch world to make the most of her last days with her mother...A sentimental journey into the final days of an Amish girl...

Helena answers a mail order bride advertisement thinking that her betrothed is the Sheriff of a Montana town. She's giddy about meeting her handsome new husband and his young son but is puzzled when he's not there to meet her. To add to the confusion, when she finally meets the sheriff he has no recollection of sending for a mail order bride. But if he didn't write those letters, who did?

David is not exactly a church going man. He has a short fuse, loves to flirt and has a broken moral compass. His life changes, however, when he comes upon a box of love letters and a picture of a lovely woman while hiking near an Amish town. He falls in love with the woman described in the letters as well as the mystery of her life...Armed with only her photograph, her journeys into the Amish town...determined to meet the woman...and win her heart.

Lily had heard about the Amish murder for the last couple of months from everyone around town. It was the talk of everyone. They all wanted to know who would want to kill someone within the Amish community and why.She was a new reporter, and this was only her second story. It had been hard to get her foot in the door at the busy news office and she was one of the only two women working there. It seemed that most of the men looked down on her as a newbie in the business. They were skeptical that she really belonged there. She had looked for good stories to follow, hoping to get one that would set her name in the business.And then they had heard rumors about Caleb Bontrager from a small midwestern Amish community. Supposedly, according to "sources", Caleb had been the last person seen with Andrew Yoder alive the night he had died. But no one really knew if it was true or not and that was exactly why Lily was going to investigate for herself.

Mary was ready for her new life, whatever it held. She had been talking to Joseph through their letters for nearly six months now. He seemed kind and he had even said he didn't mind if she were a little plump. He had to be the one, didn't he? Mary smiled at the thought. She had no idea what Joseph would be like, but she could hope that he would be a loving husband who would stand by her and encourage her and turn away anyone who made fun of her. He would love her and they would grow old together and remember how they had met through a newspaper ad in Boston. Her father's warnings returned to her mind once more. Of course, Joseph could turn out to be an angry old man who hated her the moment he laid eyes on her. She would have no choice but to marry him once she arrived in this tiny town in the west and be miserable the rest of her life....But she and Joseph would prove all of them wrong...Wouldn't they?

Darcy Morgan was a child actress and had a hit TV show but was never the wild child Hollywood star the media portrayed her. But her vindictive ex-boyfriend releases a cell phone video of her and she becomes scandalized...Running away from Hollywood and landing in Lancaster, PA of all places. The customs and people throw Darcy for a loop...and she falls harder for Isaac, the handsome farmer who helps her get settled into the town. He knows nothing of Darcy or her past...but will that secret prevent them from developing a romance that seems aligned by the stars?

Victoria has given up hope on romantic love. She just wants security and comfort, anything beats living in poverty with her younger sister Diana...Two orphans now destitute after illness claimed both of their parents. Victoria decides she has no other choice. She will become a mail order bride. Her suitor, a man named Luke, courts her with letters of undying love. But Victoria isn't so willing to give up her heart. But she soon finds out that Luke has just as many emotional trauma as she has...will the two come together and make each other whole?

Carl and Anna are unhappy to learn that they are unable to have children of their own. However, an orphan boy visiting with the neighbors shows them that they can still have a family by adopting him. The boy has been placed into various foster homes and needs a forever family. But will Carl and Anna be the family he needs?