Book Description
Old Order Amish Ivy Zook is wrestling with her need to shed her community's ways so she can grow the business of her dreams: planning parties. As long as she's stuck living without modernization, she can barely get her business on its feet. But if she leaves too soon, she'd cause trouble for her sister, Holly, who is planning her wedding to Joshua Smucker. All of their plans become twice as complicated when an old car crashes into the storefront of Greene's Pharmacy, carrying a Swartzentruber (ultra-conservative sect) Amish man, Arlan, and his very ill sister.
The Zooks take in Arlan and Madga, tending to the woman's illness and Arlan begins helping around the family farm. Ivy and Arlan are on different tracks, one wanting to leave her community and the other to return to his. But both young people are trying to discover what God has in store for their futures and what miracles might lie around the corner this Christmas season.
My thoughts:
This is the second book in the Amish Christmas Romance series penned by Cindy Woodsmall and Erin Woodsmall and I absolutely loved it. In the first book, The Christmas Remedy we met the Zook family who are Old Order Amish and this follows up with the family, friends and their community.
I loved reconnecting with characters from the first book and meeting new ones in this book.
As much as I enjoyed the first book, I found this one so heartrending which I loved. I adored Arlan and Magda and that's due to the way the characters are so lovingly written by the authors. It's unimaginable to me how unbending their parents could be, although certainly understandable given their beliefs and their strict community.
The emphasis on family is one of the many things I loved about this book, a family who is willing to help another family when they most need it and discovering that where you are sometimes is really where you are meant to be.
If anyone is looking for a well written novel with endearing characters this is the one you need to read. A Christmas Haven is a wonderful read ,suitable for all ages and would make a perfect gift for the readers on your shopping list.
I received a complimentary copy from the publisher. All opinions expressed are my own.
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