Joyful
Shelley Shepard Gray
Avon Inspire, Sep 2 2014, $12.99
ISBN: 9780062204509
In Sugarcreek, Ohio, with his parents in heaven, Randall Beiler struggles
keeping the family farm viable and worries he is failing his younger siblings
who still live there with him; as the older ones left them to move on with
their lives. Thus seeing no immediate
future, Randall ends his long term relationship with Elizabeth Nolt though he
loves her.
To his chagrin, his brother hires Elizabeth to cook and perform
other household chores. Needing money
since her mother abandoned her and her grandmother, Elizabeth hesitantly
accepts the position. Fearing his
beloved will see him as a loser, just as he believes his family does, Randall
loathes the arrangement.
The third Return to Sugarcreek Amish romance (see Thankful and
Hopeful) is an entertaining second chance if the stubborn male would set aside
his fear of failure. Although several minor
subplots involving other residents distracts from the prime storyline of "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty
spirit before a
fall" (Book of Proverbs), this is an upbeat Joyful
contemporary.
Harriet Klausner
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