Her sacrifice will allow him to marry someone else and raise a family. Remembering her great-aunt’s strange words, she decides that if she can go back in time and reject Jesse’s proposal, she can save him the heartache of a childless marriage. Several years later, mourning the loss of their third child, Eliza discovers her inability to deliver a healthy baby is genetic.
Eliza appreciates the woman’s heart, but she dismisses the strange conversation while keeping the beautiful quilt. (Sept.Eliza Bontrager and Jesse Ebersol have fallen in love and are determined to marry, despite the belief of their Amish community and respective families that there’s a hidden curse―one that only shows up when an Ebersol and Bontrager marry.īefore the ceremony on the day of the wedding, Eliza’s great-aunt Rose gives her a family heirloom quilt and tells her that she may use it to change one event in the past. Better yet, the surprising conclusion sets Woodsmall up for a sequel-but she'll need some fine-tuning if she wants a truly lasting series. An emotionally subtle subplot involving Hannah's younger sister's envy adds some depth. Most of the characters are likable, and Woodsmall depicts both the appeal and the potential myopia of secluded Amish life. Woodsmall's prose is undistinguished she too often flatly describes emotions ("Disappointment and anger formed a knot in Luke's chest"), and the Pennsylvania Dutch sprinkled throughout the book can be distracting.
But the star-crossed romance is only the backdrop to the central events of the novel: in the very first chapter, Hannah experiences a trauma, setting in motion a chain of events that sometimes seems incredible. Yes, this is a familiar setup, with shades of the movie Witness
The trouble is that he's a Mennonite, and if those two faiths look similar to outsiders, they don't to Hannah's father, who would never permit his daughter to marry outside the Amish community. In this debut inspirational novel, Woodsmall takes readers inside a contemporary Amish family where the eldest daughter, Hannah, has fallen in love with her neighbor Paul.
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