An Amish Christmas Promise. Jo Brown Ann

      

      Will she jeopardize her family secret for love?

      Secrecy kept her family safe...

      Will she risk it all for a chance at love?

      Carolyn Wiebe discarded her Amish roots to hide her niece and nephew from their violent father. Yet when a hurricane crashes into their isolated Mennonite life, she can no longer keep the world at bay. With Christmas approaching, Amish carpenter Michael Miller wants to help her rebuild her home. But can their burgeoning love withstand the rising storm of her secrets?

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      JO ANN BROWN has always loved stories with happily-ever-after endings. A former military officer, she is thrilled to have the chance to write stories about people falling in love. She is also a photographer and travels with her husband of more than thirty years to places where she can snap pictures. They have three children and live in Florida. Drop her a note at joannbrownbooks.com.

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      The Amish Widower’s Twins

      Amish Hearts

      Amish Homecoming

      An Amish Match

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      An Amish Reunion

      A Ready-Made Amish Family

      An Amish Proposal

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      An Amish Christmas Promise

      Jo Ann Brown

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      ISBN: 978-0-008-90064-9

      AN AMISH CHRISTMAS PROMISE

      © 2019 Jo Ann Ferguson

      Published in Great Britain 2019

      by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

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      “Are the kinder okay?”

      Uncomfortable with his small intrusion into her family, Carolyn said, “Kevin had a bad dream and woke us up.”

      “Because of the rain?”

      “It’s possible.”

      “Rebuilding a building is easy. Rebuilding one’s sense of security isn’t.”

      “That sounds like the voice of experience.”

      Michael sighed. “My parents died when I was young, and both my twin brother and I had to learn not to expect something horrible was going to happen without warning.”

      “I’m sorry. I should have asked more about you and the other volunteers. I’ve been wrapped up in my own tragedy.”

      “At times like this, nobody expects you to be thinking of anything but getting a roof over your kinder’s heads.”

      He didn’t reach out to touch her, but she was aware of every inch of him so close to her. His quiet strength had awed her from the beginning. As she’d come to know him better, his fundamental decency had impressed her more. He was a man she believed she could trust.

      She shoved that thought aside. Trusting any man would be the worst thing she could do.

      Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden.

      —Galatians 6:2–5

      Dear Reader,

      Sometimes, the worst events bring out the best in people. We met many of our new neighbors when a hurricane swept through our town, and we were outside cleaning debris. Those who were able stepped up without fanfare to help those who weren’t, and within a week, our neighborhood looked just as it should have. But we had a new camaraderie that lasted far longer than the scars of damage.

      The Mennonite Disaster Service was established seventy years ago when a group of young people wanted to help others. MDS volunteers, who are both plain and Englisch, come primarily from the US and Canada and have helped rebuild homes and lives after disasters, usually weather related or due to wildfires.

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