After a devastating winter, a spring breeze promises more than new flowers.… It promises a new chance at love.Bess Weaver, twenty and expecting her first child, is in the kitchen making stew for her beloved mann, Caleb, one minute, and the next she’s burying him after a tragic accident. Facing life as a young widow, Bess finds comfort only in tending the garden at an Englisch-owned bed and … Englisch-owned bed and breakfast—even as she doubts that new growth could ever come after such a long winter.
Aidan tries to repress his guilt over his best friend Caleb’s death and his long-standing feelings for Bess by working harder than ever. But as he spends time with the young son his friend left behind, he seems to be growing closer to the boy’s beautiful mother as well.
When a close-knit group of widows in her Amish community step in to help Bess find her way back to hope, she begins to wonder if Gott has a future for her after all. Will she ever believe that life can still hold joy and the possibility of love?
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Amazing book
This is a story of loss and trying to go on with your life. Bess was a young Amish women who growing up had friends like Caleb and Aidan. Aidan loved Bess secretly growing up but loved his best friend Caleb as well. Caleb started courting Bess and married he.r.. Bess was expecting a child when Adian asked Caleb to go to town with him and there was a accident with a truck that killed Caleb. Bess’s love for Caleb was hard for her to go on with out him.. Aidan blamed himself for the death of his best friend Caleb. Bess started making choices for herself which the Amish questioned. When Caleb was dying he made a promise to watch over his wife and there boppli .When Aidan spends time with his best friends son he realizes his love for Bess. This is there story of loving someone and losing them and how they went on with there lives. A beautiful Amish story.I read this book for NetGalley for a honest review.
Sometimes I love the simple nature of an Amish romance that also weaves within it the harsh realities of life that are no different than an Englischer’s. This was my first book by Kelly Irvin and now I’ll be clamoring for more. Her gently flowing prose and impeccable detail to the Amish life in Jamesport was transportive. Although frustrating at times with what seems as judgement within this Amish community, I enjoyed seeing Bess’s strength of character as she heals, embraces motherhood, and finds love again. Aiden is the perfect hero to her heroine – honorable, respectful, and cognizant of Bess’s strengths as a woman. Overall, a beautiful love story that doesn’t shy away from the heartaches of real life.
I received a copy of this book from The Fiction Guild. I was not required to give a favorable review. All thoughts are my own. I have read other books from Kelly and this was another wonderful story. Bess and Caleb were friends from youth and so was their friend Aidan. Bess and Caleb married and were about to have their first child when tragedy struck and he was killed and left her with the loss of her husband and the upcoming birth of her child. They were living with his parents while they were building their home and now that was not going to happen. She was trying to get over her grief of the loss of her husband and live each day, but her mother in law wasn’t doing well with the loss and neither was Bess. What were both women to do. And Aidan tried to help by telling little Jacob about growing up with his father and mother. Will their be a light at the end of the tunnel after such a loss. I love this story, you can’t tell someone how to grieve until you have lived it yourself. And the wonderful ladies of the community who have lost their spouses are a wonderful support.
Loved this book.
Enjoyed reading this refreshing book.
I loved this book from beginning to end. While I found it hard to understand why Bess preferred working to being with her baby in the beginning, and other things that happened, it all worked out. I felt bad for her losing Caleb, and her confusion about being attracted to 2 men, one not Amish. I especially loved the ending. I gave it 5 stars.
Wonderful book!
A well written story that held my interest. Rather predictable but still worth reading . it held my interest. and I enjoyed the characters
Easy read and entertaining,
loved it, couldn’t put it down.