Amish Christmas at North Star: Four Stories of Love and Family

by Cindy Woodsmall, Mindy Starns Clark, Emily Clark, Amanda Flower, Katie Ganshert

Overview

One night four lives entered the world by the hands of an Amish midwife, just outside North Star, Pennsylvania.

Rebekah’s Babies, as they are called, are now grown adults and in four heartwarming novellas each young person experiences a journey of discovery, a possibility of love, and the wonder of Christmas.

Guiding Star by Katie Ganshert
Curiosity gets the best of Englischer Chase Wellington when he investigates the twenty-five-year-old disappearance of an Amish baby. When he finds adventurous Elle McAllister in Iowa will his discoveries upend her world?

Mourning Star by Amanda Flower
Eden Hochstetler slips from her parents’ fudge shop to investigate the death of her friend Isaac.  Who is guilty? Isaac’s handsome great nephew Jesse, an angry Englischer, or someone else?

In the Stars by Cindy Woodsmall
Heartbroken Kore Detweiler avoids North Star after Savilla Beiler rejects his love.  But when he is unexpectedly called to return home, he and Savilla must join forces to keep a family together.

Star of Grace by Mindy Starns Clark and Emily Clark
Andy Danner left North Star to join a new Amish settlement in Mississippi. His little brother devises a scheme to bring Andy home for Christmas and unwittingly unleashes the power of forgiveness in a reclusive widower’s life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781601428141
Publisher:	The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/20/2015
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.47(w) x 8.18(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

CINDY WOODSMALL is a best-selling author of several works of Amish fiction and a non-fiction book. MINDY STARNS CLARK is a bestselling author of both fiction and nonfiction, coauthoring the Christy Award-winning The Amish Midwife. Her daughter EMILY CLARK is an MFA student. AMANDA FLOWERS authored the Amish Quilt Shop mysteries as Isabella Alan and received an Agatha Award nomination for Maid of Murder. KATIE GANSHERT is the Christy Award-winning author of Life After and A Broken Kind of Beautiful, and several other novels and novellas.

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2015
One wintry night, four babies are born, near North Star, PA, each delivered by Rebekah, an Amish midwife. What follows are the stories of each child as they grow into adulthood. In Katie Ganshert's "Guiding Star," Englisher Chase Wellington's probe into the 25-year-old disappearance of an Amish infant leads him to Iowa and Elle McAllister. In Amanda Flower's "Mourning Star," Eden Hochstetler investigates the death of her friend Isaac Yoder; could his handsome nephew be guilty? Woodsmall's "In the Stars" has Kore Detweile returning to North Star where he has to collaborate with the woman who rejected him to keep a family together. In the final tale, "Star of Grace" by Mindy Starns Clark and Emily Clark, a little brother schemes to bring his older brother home from Louisiana for Christmas. VERDICT Ganshert (Wildflowers from Winter), Flower ("Amish Quilt Shop" mysteries), Woodsmall ("Sisters of the Quilt" novels), and Clark (The Amish Midwife) stitch the stories of these four lives as skillfully as the Amish quilt a beautiful bedspread. An enthralling holiday read for Amish fiction devotees.

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