Harlequin Love Inspired
Featuring: Anne Stoltzfus; Joseph Lapp
ISBN: 037387992X EAN: 9780373879922 Kindle: B00VQF158E Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
THE AMISH MIDWIFE is the third and final book in the
Lancaster
Courtships series. I am sad the series is ending and
have loved all
three stories. Anne Stoltzfus is an Amish midwife and has
lived next door
to Joseph Lapp for three years. One day, one of his goats
gets in her
garden, and Anne says it is the final straw. While Joseph
tries to walk away
from her yelling, she pegs him in the back with a big juicy
tomato. The
scene is so funny that you will laugh out loud just like I
did. Many times
while reading their story I could just picture them
bickering and picking on
each other. I was still smiling after I finished their
story.
Joseph Lapp is a goat farmer and is a bachelor who would
rather be with
his goats then with people in his Amish community. When he
was younger,
his parents and his girlfriend were killed in a horrific
crash. Joseph and his
six year old sister, Fannie were thrown from the buggy and
survived.
Joseph was driving that night and has had to live with so
much guilt and
feels like he failed his sister as well. Fannie has left
the Amish faith and
has been gone for three years. One night she shows up on
his doorstep
with an infant. It is her daughter Leah and she tells
Joseph that she needs
to have surgery and wants to leave his niece with him. She
doesn't come
back, and Joseph gets a letter from her a week later
telling him to raise
Leah as she is better off with him than with her own
mother.
Joseph does not want to be responsible for Leah. He failed
Fannie, and he
knows he won't do right by Leah either. He begs Anne to
help
him by becoming Leah's nanny. THE AMISH MIDWIFE is such a
different
story, and I was instantly pulled in to this, at times,
heartbreaking story.
What kind of a mother can just walk away from her child?
Will Joseph be
able to put his fears aside and raise Leah? I was on the
edge of my seat
the whole time reading their story, afraid of what was
going to come next.
All of the characters are well developed and felt very real
to me. Anne was
so spunky and sassy she had me laughing out loud over and
over
again. That is exactly why Patricia Davids is one of my
favorite Christian
authors.
Amish midwife Anne Stoltzfus is used to late-night
visitors—but she's shocked to find reclusive bachelor
Joseph
Lapp on her doorstep with a baby in his arms. Their
neighborly quarrels are pushed aside when Joseph explains
that his sister has left her daughter in his care—and
Joseph
needs Anne to be her nanny. Soon they're bonding over baby
Leah, and the love they feel for her is healing them both.
When Joseph makes an offer of marriage, Anne's painful past
resurfaces and she's unsure of what to do. But taking a
chance could mean love—and family—are waiting just across
the fence.
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