Van Beiler and Jolene Keim are engaged to be married. One
week before
the wedding Jolene's parents are swept away in a flash
flood at the river
crossing and they both drown. Jolene has a decision to
make. As the oldest
of six children what should she do? She tells Van that she
wants to marry
him but stay in the family house and take care of her
siblings. Van isn't so
sure he wants that. He calls off the marriage and Jolene
is left with her
siblings to raise on her own. Can she do it? Read A LOVE
UNDONE to
find out.
A single Amish woman raising her siblings is not common.
Jolene takes on
a cleaning job to help with the expenses, along with help
from family and
those in her community. After ten years, and most of her
siblings grown,
Jolene meets Andy Fisher and sparks begin to fly between
them. Sparks
both good and bad because at first, they didn't get along
with each other,
yet there was something there that both didn't want to
admit at first. But
then again, Andy is married. His wife had left years
ago, and the Amish
rules are, once married, always married unless death parts
a couple. They
consider Andy a grass widower. My heart broke for both of
them. They are
torn by what is in their hearts, but can not ignore the
rules of their faith.
The smaller stories lines are just as interesting as the
main one. A LOVE
UNDONE is a story that will make you think about it long
after you have
finished reading. I like Ray's story. He is a boy who
was struck by lightning
and lives to tell about it. Ray is Jolene's younger
brother. Your heart will go
out to Ray in his daily struggles with life, and his
anxieties. Finding his
place in the community and dealing with his emotions is
hard. But he gets
reacquainted with Teena and you will find yourself
cheering for both of
them.
There are plenty of twists and turns within A LOVE UNDONE.
I was on the
edge of my seat and flipping the pages like a crazy woman
until just about
the very end wondering what was going to happen. I was so
wrong over
and over again.
A LOVE UNDONE is so different from most Amish books that
I found that it
was hard to put down even when I needed to get another
tissue. I found
myself thinking I had figured it all out and then a few
pages later, learning I
was completely wrong. I've been reading Cindy Woodsmall's
books for
years and A LOVE UNDONE is exactly why. The depth and
detail of each
of the characters and what they are going through, is so
believable that you
feel as if you are sitting right there next to them,
feeling the love and
heartache just as they do. Keep the box of tissues close
by.
A husband and son abandoned to forge a path alone.
A young woman who sacrificed her dreams.
How will the God of grace and hope help them find their
way?
At nineteen years old, Old Order Amish Jolene Keim was on
the brink of happily-ever-after when everything changed,
stealing the future she expected and burdening her with an
unbearable decision. For the next ten years, Jolene throws
herself into family life—and then she meets Andy Fisher.
The
horse trainer and father to a sweet nine year-old
challenges
her and holds up a mirror to issues Jolene has been
unwilling to face.
Andy is cautious about his deepening friendship with
Jolene,
but he believes she knows the truth about him – that he is
a
grass widower. As a man whose wife has abandoned him six
years past, he is unable to divorce or remarry according
to
the Amish ways. Andy has wrestled with God concerning his
reality, and he had found peace with the solitary future
facing him…until he met Jolene.
As Andy and Jolene find themselves confronted by difficult
choices, will they trust in God's guidance—or will the
allure of their deepening friendship only lead to further
temptation?
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