The Baby Left at Kettle Creek
The basket was still warm when Miriam Beiler found it on her porch step. Three years a widow, with a farm too big for one woman — and a newborn left at her door with no name and no note.
No bad language, no bedroom scenes, no cliffhangers. Every book is a complete story with an ending you can see coming and still want. Free to read with Kindle Unlimited.
The Amish Widows of Kettle Creek — six widows, one Ohio district, and the land that holds them.
In Kettle Creek a woman who buries her husband is expected to sell the land, move in with family, and stop asking for anything. These six do not. Each book is a complete story with its own happy ending. No bad language, no bedroom scenes.
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The basket was still warm when Miriam Beiler found it on her porch step. Three years a widow, with a farm too big for one woman — and a newborn left at her door with no name and no note.
A car stops at the bottom of the lane, a nine-year-old girl gets out with a garbage bag of clothes, and the car does not come back. The Amish school will not take her. The schoolteacher leaves a slate on the porch.
Everyone in Kettle Creek knows who Caleb Raber will marry. They just have not told him. Anna Mast is thirty-seven, has three sons, and stands at the gate without opening it — for fourteen Saturdays.
Thirty-five years ago Daniel Bontrager climbed out a window at nineteen and never came back. Now he is standing in the auction ring, and the first face he sees belongs to the woman who waited at the end of the lane.
On Second Christmas morning, Sarah Lapp found a boy lying in the snow at the bottom of the lane. He has no coat, no name, and no words. The district has until spring to decide what happens to him.
Hannah Schrock has delivered two hundred and thirty-one babies in this district. There is one night she has never told anybody about — and the man who was there has come back.
Coming Home to Cider Hollow
Rebecca Hostetler’s second Amish series — the ones who left, and the district that learns to be at the door when they come back.
Sadie Zook left Cider Hollow to become a nurse. Eight years later, one letter brings her home: her father has fallen from the cider press platform, and the district’s only press is running without him.
Leah King left under the Bann at nineteen, on an Englisch boy’s empty promise. Eight years and a daughter later, she comes home to a district that has to decide whether it meant what it said — and a deacon’s son who has waited at her garden fence every evening since.
The Amish Brides of Sparrow Run
Rebecca Hostetler’s third Amish series — marriages of convenience, and the truths two people choose to tell each other.
Susanna has run her greenhouse and raised two daughters alone since she became a widow — and the bank wants four thousand dollars she doesn’t have. Gideon offers her a bargain in his own kitchen: his shop covers her note, and he won’t pretend to love her, because she’s been lied to enough.
Miriam steps off a bus with her fifteen-year-old sister and a four-line letter from a deacon following behind her — and has decided to say nothing about why. Eli keeps the ledger for eighty-one households and has no patience for people who know something and won’t say it.
The Buttered Crumb Mysteries — a bakery, a small Vermont town, and a body nobody saw coming.
Iris Calloway came home to Briar Hollow to run her grandmother’s bakery, not to work out who killed the man on the gazebo steps. No gore, no cynicism, and the culprit is always someone who was already in the room. Free to read with Kindle Unlimited.
She accused him of stealing her recipe, in front of the whole festival. Four hours later Walter Kemp was dead on the gazebo steps — and every person who had watched them argue already had a theory.
Sabrina Holt never left a door open. That morning the cellar stood wide, the brand-new padlock hung undone, and Gideon Pratt lay at the bottom of the stairs. Briar Hollow decided it was an accident. Iris didn’t.
“They found remains. Decades, not years.” Under six old apple trees, on a farm that had just changed hands — and a town that had been telling itself the wrong story for thirty-four years.
Montana ranches, marriages worth fighting for, and the work of showing up.
Clean western romance for readers who want real ranch work on the page, a slow burn, and a happily-ever-after earned one mile at a time. No bad language, no bedroom scenes.
Wren Callister came home to Montana to close the books on a dying cattle valley — not to find her late father’s ledger entry for a forty-one-mile trail drive that could still save it. She has twenty-six days, three gates, and a foreman who is right about everything and has never once been told so.
Nora quietly saved her husband’s family ranch and never got a word of thanks. Now Wade has missed their anniversary, a photo of him with another woman has gone public, and Nora has filed for divorce — so he shows up at four-thirty in the morning to learn the work she carried alone.
Lainey runs her late father’s sale barn; her husband Jesse signed the plan to tear it down without reading it. She walks out and files for separation — and that night Jesse finds forty-seven unplayed voicemails from his wife, and starts listening, one by one.
Coastal New England — harbors, Christmas letters, and towns worth staying for.
Clean small-town romance set on the New England coast, for readers who love a slow burn, a real place, and a community that shows up when it counts. No bad language, no bedroom scenes.
Tess walked out on a corporate job and drove north to Bayberry Harbor, where the last real bayberry candle works in New England has stood locked on the wharf for twenty years. The town has voted to tear it down — she has twenty-three days to prove the room can still produce, and only one man has the key.
Maren came back to sell her grandmother’s inn before the first snow. Three days later the harbor master condemns her dock — and in the attic she finds forty-one Christmas letters, one a year, never mailed, all signed with a single letter: R.
Wyoming Territory — mail-order brides, fourteen days, and a town that watches from every porch.
Clean historical western romance, for readers who love a slow burn, a good man who does the wrong thing for the right reason, and a happily-ever-after that has to be earned. No bad language, no bedroom scenes.
Clara crossed thirteen hundred miles for the man who wrote her eight months of letters — but he wasn’t the one waiting on the platform. Thomas cannot write; his partner Gideon can, and somewhere around the fourth letter, he stopped being able to stop.
Eliza steps off the train wearing her sister’s name — the letters Nathan fell in love with were signed by Hannah, and every word of them was hers. She has fourteen days at Larkin House to tell a good man the truth before the town decides for her.
For the people caring for a parent.
One page a day for meals, medications, mood and sleep. A weekly review to see what is changing, and a section for their details, so you are not hunting for them at the worst possible moment.
A written record says more in thirty seconds than a rushed conversation can. Medications given, symptoms noticed, sleep — plus a running list you can hand to a doctor.
Most caregiver planners only track the patient. This one tracks your whole week — your parent's appointments on one page, your family's school runs and meals on the other.
An honest record you can look back on, and bring to the next appointment. Mood, sleep, appetite, confusion, and what actually helped — with a weekly summary that shows the pattern a single day hides.
Everything the ER team, the new doctor, or your sibling needs, in one place. Care team, medications, insurance and legal documents, and where everything is kept. Fill it once, hand it to anyone.
For the women who are still functioning, and running on empty.
Your brain is not broken. It is just doing midlife differently. Ten modules on focus, energy, hormones and self-compassion — context, then a practical exercise, then room to reflect.
This workbook will not tell you to do more. It is built to help you carry less. Ten modules on rebuilding energy, setting boundaries and finding a pace you can hold.
A guided journal for rebuilding self-trust one decision at a time. Currently in review at Amazon.
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No mantras. No lectures.
One page for each of the first ninety days: cravings, sleep, mood, what you did instead. A milestone page every seventh day, and a page at the front for your reasons — for the evenings you cannot remember them.
You do not need daily hand-holding anymore. You need to keep showing up. One page a week for fifty-two weeks, and a monthly check-in that shows the drift before it becomes a slip.
We send a free copy of every new Samawa novel — Amish romance and cosy mystery alike — to a small group of readers a week or two before it goes on sale. All we ask is an honest review once you have finished it: good or bad, whatever you truly thought.
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