Summer's Promise (Harvest of Hope #3) by Barbara Cameron

Book Description

Can she leave everything she knows for love?

Summer Carson has lived near the Amish community in Paradise, Pennsylvania, all her life. Now she's following in her father's footsteps and earning her degree in agricultural science so she can continue his work helping local farmers.

In her job at the county extension office, Summer moves between the Englisch and the Amish worlds. While she sometimes finds herself speaking--and even thinking--in Pennsylvania Deitsch, the transition isn't always easy. But what has come naturally to Summer is her attraction to one of the farmers: Abram Yoder is handsome, steady, and hardworking. He's everything so many of the Englisch men she knows are not. And Summer quickly realizes that she's caught his eye as well.

Can Summer give up the comforts she's always known for a life with this Amish man? And is Abram willing to let her try?

My thoughts:

Summer's Promise is the wonderfully written novel penned by Barbara Cameron and is the third book in her Harvest of Hope series.  I loved the maturity of Summer Carson, she is a determined young woman who is following in her father's footsteps and earning a degree in agricultural science while a working part-time and helping her widowed mother.  The relationship between Summer and her mother is sweet and I love how they take care of and look out for each other.
That is a theme throughout this book, people helping each other, a community with kind, hardworking people who genuinely care about others, both Englisch and Amish  lending a helping hand to those who need it.

I loved Abram Yoder from the beginning, his charm and kindness was delightful and his devotion to his Amish faith was never in question. His gentleness with animals was really what made him become a favorite  of mine in this book.  There was never a doubt in my mind that he and Summer would become friends and I appreciate the way the author wrote their relationship, taking care to nurture it.


I thought it was wonderful that Summer's father is remembered so fondly by the community and keeping his memory alive felt so right in this story because it's all about friends, family and community throughout this well written and well paced novel.  This can easily be read as a standalone and is suitable for readers from the young to the young at heart.

I received a copy of this book from Kregel Publishing Blog Tours.  Opinions expressed are my own.