Bestselling authors Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould offer readers The Amish Bride, Book 3 in the Women of Lancaster County series, which tells the stories of young Plain women as they explore their roots, connect with family, and discover true love. Ella Bayer and Ezra Gundy are in love and hope to marry someday, but she is a young Mennonite woman while he is an Amish man. Though both Plain, … Though both Plain, one of them will have to forsake what they believe to embrace another way of life.
Hoping some distance will cool the relationship, Ezra’s family sends him to work at an Amish dairy farm in Indiana. But Ella disregards what her family wants and follows Ezra. In short order she finds a place to live, a job in a bakery, and an unexpected but budding friendship with a handsome Amish farmhand, Luke. When a family tragedy forces Ella back to Pennsylvania, she must face all she’s been running away from. And once she has made peace with those around her, she has an important decision to make: Whose Amish bride will she become–Ezra’s or Luke’s?
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I received a copy of this book from the author, I was not required to give a favorable. As with each of these wonderful authors, this book told a story that was very enjoyable. When Ella was trying to make choices about her life, both with her family and her boyfriend, her grandmother put her on a path to find out about a book that was written by her mother. With the history of the Amish not having pictures of people this was a very interesting quest. But Ella had to leave to find the peace that she so needed in her life to either stay in the Mennonite Church or join the Amish Church. But she also was dealing with the thought of her father who had left them coming back. She went to her grandmother’s home town and found so much more than she expected. I enjoy this book very much.
Mennonite raised Ella Bayer graduates high school at 17. She has her further all planned out. First she wants to go to a baking or culinary school to learn how to bake fancy wedding cakes. Her goal is to have her own bakery before she marries her Amish boyfriend Ezra Gundy. Often our plans don’t go as we wanted or hoped they would.
Ezra Gundy is Amish and Ella Bayer is a Plain Mennonite. It seems Ezra’s family wants him to become a dairy farmer and marry an Amish girl. Ella’s mom seems to be trying to separate them as well. Ezra’s family decides to send him away to a dairy farm in Indiana in hopes that he can get experience and learn to run a dairy farm. Unknown to the parents , Ella makes plans to work at a bakery in Indiana and later enroll for baking classes at a famous French restaurant. It seems she’s thought of everything but can she pull this off before her mom learns what she’s up to?
The Amish Bride is book three of The Women of Lancaster County. I previously read The Amish Midwife, book one of the series. The series is written by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould. There are five books to the series. I would recommend that the books be read in order as the characters are carried over to the other books.
I loved this story and hurt when Ella did and shared her rollercoaster of emotions . I felt her feelings of rejection and loneliness from being separated from her family. I was completely drawn into the story and I thought the authors brought it to life very nicely. I will be reading the other books in this series.
Readers of Amish Fiction and Christian Fiction would enjoy this book. I highly recommend it and gave it five Stars.
I won a signed copy of this book from a giveaway on Leslie Goulds Web site. I was not asked to write a review. All opinions shared here are my own thoughts and how I felt about the book.