Beth Wiseman, Kathleen Fuller, Kelly Long (A Marriage of the Heart; What the Heart Sees; Healing Hearts)

348 Pages·2010·1.53 MB·English

by  Love An Amish

AN AMISH LOVE
KELLY LONG
KATHLEEN FULLER
BETH WISEMAN
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Scripture quotations taken from the King James Version.
Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either
products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. All characters are fictional, and any similarity to
people living or dead is purely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Long, Kelly.
An Amish love : / Kelly Long, Kathleen Fuller, Beth Wiseman.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-59554-875-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Amish—Fiction. 2. Christian fiction, American. 3. Love stories, American.
I. Fuller, Kathleen. II. Wiseman, Beth, 1962– III. Title.
PS648.A45L66 2010
813'.6—dc22
2010037315
Printed in the United States of America
10 11 12 13 14 RRD 5 4 3 2 1
Kelly: For my husband, Scott, the husband of my youth and now,
still, twenty-four years later, my love of all time
Kathy: To my daughter, Sydney, I love you!
Beth: To my sisters—Laurie, Valarie, Melody, and Dawn
GLOSSARY
ab im kopp: off in the head, crazy aenti: aunt
aldi: girlfriend appeditlich: delicious bruder: brother bu: boy
daadi: grandfather daag: day
daed: dad
danki: thanks
Derr Herr: God dochder: daughter dumm: dumb
dummkopf: dummy Englisch: a non-Amish person familye: family frau: wife, Mrs.
freind: friend geh: go
grosskinner: grandchildren guder mariye: good morning gut: good
hatt: hard
haus: house
kapp: prayer covering or cap kinn, kinner: child, children kumme: come
lieb: love
maed, maedel: girls, girl mami, mamm: mom mammi: grandmother mann: man
mei: my
meiding: shunning mutter: mother narrisch: crazy nee: no
nix: nothing
Ordnung: the written and unwritten rules of the Amish; the
understood behavior by which the Amish are expected to
live, passed down from generation to generation. Most
Amish know the rules by heart.
Pennsylvania Deitsch: Pennsylvania German, the language
most commonly used by the Amish rumschpringe: running-around period when a teenager turns
sixteen years old schwester: sister sehr gut: very good sohn: son
vatter: father ya: yes
CONTENTS
A MARRIAGE OF THE HEART
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
WHAT THE HEART SEES
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
HEALING HEARTS
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
AN AMISH LOVE
AMISH RECIPES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS