The Amish Quiltmaker's Uninvited Guest
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4.6 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Even with her thriving quilt shop and baby-on-the-way, Colorado Amish quiltmaker Esther Kiem always has time for matchmaking—even when it comes to her frustratingly exacting distant cousin!
Infused with her signature humor and saturated with heart, award-winning, USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Beckstrand blends quilting, mischief, and matchmaking for the fifth Amish Quiltmaker romance—perfect for fans of Amy Clipston, Wanda Brunstetter, and Linda Byler.
Esther’s distant cousin, widower Menno Eicher, needs to be hard-headed and practical. Swamped by family and farm responsibilities, he must find the perfect wife as quickly as possible, so he’s shown up in Colorado—with “finding a wife” on his To-Do list! Esther’s community has many women who could match his ever-growing requirements. Still, after a chance meeting, Menno keeps coming back to baker Joanna Yoder. Hard-working, honest, and forthright, she’s distracting Menno from his search, opening his heart—yet refuses to believe he’s falling hopelessly in love with her . . .
Happily busy inventing and selling delicious desserts, Joanna has no time for someone as ridiculously exacting as Menno. After all, what sort of man thinks choosing a wife is like picking a pie at the general store? But she soon sees the surprisingly kind heart, doting father, and understanding man beneath his hard-to-please ways. With faith and genuine love, might the few things they have in common overcome the differences between them—and prove precious enough to risk a future together?
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Beckstrand (The Amish Quiltmaker's Unlikely Match) continues the Amish Quiltmaker series with a sweet unexpected romance between a hardheaded widower and the enterprising baker he has his eye on. A year after Menno Eichler's wife died of ALS, the overworked sugar beet farmer is on the market for a new frau to mother his small daughters and help out on his farm. Pickings are slim in his small Idaho town, so he travels to his cousin's Colorado Amish community, where he meets and is instantly taken with baker Joanna Yoder—who promptly writes Menno off because word has spread that he's focused on simply finding a wife to cook and clean for him. Menno's cousin draws up a list of the town's bachelorettes and Menno dutifully dates, and systematically rejects, several of them—Sadie "has a cell phone and giggles"; conversation with avid gardener Naomi is dull—before realizing the problem may be his own businesslike approach to finding a wife in the first place: "You can't nicely fit people into a set of plans or write them down on a list.... People don't work that way," advises a town resident. The supporting characters churn up plenty of fun, and the zippy romance between stubborn, literalist Menno and free-spirited Joanna is a treat ("He was looking for a can of corn, and Joanna refused to be a can of corn," Beckstrand writes of Menno's desire to pick a wife as though off a grocery store shelf). Series fans will be smitten.
