Three authors provide tales of romantic suspense in this look at Amish life, DANGER IN AMISH COUNTRY. In Fall From Grace by Marta Perry, a young Pennsylvania schoolteacher Sara Esch finds a man lying at the base of a rocky cliff. With a concerned parent Caleb King, she tries to help, but this young Englisch man is dead. Caleb's little girl Rachel came home distressed the previous day - what if she had seen the accident? Sara doesn't feel comfortable dealing with the police, and neither she nor Caleb mentions the girl. If this was no accident, maybe quiet Rachel saw something sinister... maybe they are all in danger.

Dangerous Homecoming by Diane Burke shows widow Katie Lapp living alone despite disapproval from the community, which does not believe a woman should run a farm. Someone is leaving unpleasant notes and damaging her crops. Who could wish her harm? A young man called Joshua arrives back in town after three years' studying carpentry. He sees a lot of Englisch businesses opening, but first on his mind is paying a call to Katie. Having been badly treated during her brief marriage, Katie has no wish to let a man into her life again. However much she needs a friend....

Return to Willow Trace by Kit Wilkinson sets Lydia Stoltz working in a furniture store, a large Amish-owned business. A young man called Joseph, who had courted Lydia for a while before deciding to see life in other counties, is in the workshop when an injured man with a gun terrifies Lydia one evening. Briefly the two young people put their differences behind them, dealing with an unfamiliar cell phone call and a bag of chemical drugs. The police chief is pragmatic about the proliferation of drug dealers even in rural towns, and where there's drugs there's danger....

All three heroines are practical women working hard and caring about others, distinct characters. The community's rules are not over-emphasised and we get some interesting snippets, such as an Amish retirement home being set in Florida, which brings an immediate amusing contrast to mind. Tending animals or working wood by hand takes up a lot of time and energy, and it can be hard to meet other young people once the rumspringe or running-around youthful days are gone. DANGER IN AMISH COUNTRY is a fine romantic suspense read.

Book Summary

LOVE AND DANGER COLLIDE IN THREE NEW AMISH NOVELLAS

Fall from Grace by Marta Perry

When one of her students witnesses a crime, Sara Esch gets too close to the truth, and widower Caleb King must risk it all for the woman who's taught him to love again.

Dangerous Homecoming by Diane Burke

Katie Lapp needs her childhood friend Joshua Miller more than ever when someone threatens her late husband's farm. Can Joshua protect her…even if it endangers his heart?

Return to Willow Trace by Kit Wilkinson

A series of accidents has startled their Plain community…and leads Lydia Stoltz to Joseph Yoder, the man who once broke her heart. At every turn, it seems their shared past holds the key to their future.

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