A year after the death of his wife Belinda, Silas Fry is moving his two teenage children to Pinecraft, a community in Sarasota, FL where all orders and fellowships of Amish and Mennonite families live and work together. He's been on the missions field for the past ten years as a pilot for Aviation Fellowship. He has a job here contracting at the local airfield. The one person Silas is not sure about seeing in Pinecraft or reconnecting with is Rochelle Keim. Rochelle and Silas share a history from their teen years in Ohio. Their relationship ended badly. Will they be able to at least be friends; or will there be something more in store for them?

Rochelle is very busy with her two nieces who are both getting married in just a few short weeks. Betsy and Emma Yoder came from Ohio to live with Rochelle just a year ago. They both found that someone special in their lives and look forward to their wedding day. Betsy is as sure as she can be that Thaddeus is the right one for her. But Emma is having doubts about Steven and keeps changing her mind about all the wedding details. Is she really ready for marriage? Will there be a double wedding after all?

Lynette Sowell brings us another delightful, inspirational story from her Seasons in Pinecraft series. This is the third installment. I love series books, because the returning characters become like old friends, and it's always good to catch up with what is happening in their lives. Ms. Sowell uses flashbacks to give us Silas and Rochelle's past history, inter-mingling these flashbacks with the present. Silas and Rochelle are strong and stubborn characters who learn from their past and are trying not to make some of the same mistakes again. A PROMISE OF GRACE is a story about grieving the dead, yet having to go on living. It's a story about change, grace and restoration, a story of second chances. Ms. Sowell gives us a lot of food for thought and lessons to be learned in this inspirational novel.

Book Summary

Rochelle Keim has lived in Pinecraft for almost twenty years among her Mennonite brethren and the Amish of Sarasota. Unlike the snowbirds who visit Pinecraft from the north, Rochelle is a year-round resident of the unique Plain community. She’s quiet, content, and keenly adept at keeping her past firmly tucked away. Feeling unsettled as she nears her fortieth birthday, she decides to return to nursing school, a dream she gave up long ago during a painful time she dares not remember. Her past decides to make itself present when Silas Fry, Rochelle’s former love, moves to Pinecraft. Silas spent the past two decades working as a missionary pilot, but that all changed with the sudden loss of his wife, Belinda—Rochelle’s childhood best friend. Now both Rochelle and Silas are on a collision course with their past, and the reunited couple must decide if they’re trying to resurrect a dead romance, or if the two very different people whose paths have crossed can make a new life together.

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