Bücher von Vanessa Carlson

Hannah is a beautiful housewife who is married to an Amish man. While out Christmas shopping she accidentally gets her packages mixed up in a bookstore with a handsome young man named Charles. Charles is a married Englischer with two young children who also lives near the Amish town. Months later they take the same train into the city and bump into each other again. There is an instant attraction between them but neither of them is looking for an affair. They keep bumping into each other and having longer conversations. They are both falling in love against their better judgments. Honest with each other about not looking for an extramarital affair, they cannot resist seeing each other, just to talk. Their emotions grow stronger and they cannot stop thinking about each other...What will they do?

Katherine has been a widow for several years now but she has been nothing but a rock of support in the Amish community. Her children are young adults now and she begins entertaining ideas of starting a business with an Englisch friend but she feels the pull to help in the local bakery when the baker's wife passes away...The two begin working alongside each other and an attraction builds. Their affection and respect for each other slowly builds into love. But can they put aside the feelings that that they are betraying their dead spouses...and open themselves to the prospect of once again experiencing the loss of someone they hold so dear?

Janet's father told her that she should count her blessings that he had found her a suitable husband. He was a banker and was very well off. But Janet had other ideas. She would not let it happen. She didn't want to give up her calling as a nurse and be some banker's wife. Defying her father for the first time in her life, she came up with a plan. She would move out west as a mail-order-bride. Together with her young daughter, she had already found the perfect candidate: Dr. Race Barton. He needed a partner and she needed an excuse to keep working as a nurse. It was the perfect arrangement, if not for love than for practicality's sake. But would he feel the same way?

After a harsh childhood where she was abandoned by her Amish mother, Hannah decides to return to her birth mother's hometown to make amends with her past. Once there, she is hired by a brooding, widowed farmer to care for his young daughter...with an unlikely romance ensuing.

Two shy Amish men, John and Luke, fall in love with a visiting teacher. All of the women in the community are jealous of her beauty and undercut their efforts. But the teacher herself is hiding a dark secret. Can she find redemption in the Amish community?

Feeling lost and abandoned, Jezebel is a young frontier woman battles anger and self-pity at a school for the blind. But soon, she finds a source of hope & romance with the arrival of a new teacher named Thomas. The two young people begin working together and the students are given renewed hope... But what will happen when the school is threatened by lack of funds and the stresses it brings to their budding romance?

Penelope never thought it was possible to die of a broken heart but it happened to her mother. She had tried to mend that gaping wound inside her chest but, in the end, there was no saving her. With no money or job opportunities, Penelope left her small town to become a mail order bride of Thomas. Like her own father, Thomas is a grieving widow. Can they find common ground both she and Thomas are grieving for their loved ones?

Not much happens in and out of the small Amish town and that's just the way Sadie likes it. So when her brother is accused of murder, she's terrified.Sadie believes her brother is innocent, but she's going to have a hard time proving it when he can't remember the events of the night himself. What looks to be a tragic accident suddenly turns into an accusation of murder with Sadie questioning both her own brother and life long friends. Will Sadie be able to prove her brother's innocence? Can she expose secrets in her Amish town, even those she never know existed until now?