The Amish Christmas Candle
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $4.99
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Publisher Description
The joyous glow of Christmas brings the gift of new love in this “sprightly, satisfying, and occasionally hilarious” Amish holiday romance anthology (Publishers Weekly).
Snow Shine on Ice Mountain by Kelly Long
When Naomi Gish’s mischievous father hires strapping Gray Fisher at their candle shop for the Christmas season, she’s positive the old man has an ulterior motive. She doesn’t need help—but as Gray learns the craft of candle making, Naomi learns that love is God’s most precious gift.
A Honeybee Christmas by Jennifer Beckstrand
Though Bitsy Kiem made sacrifices to raise her three nieces Amish, she misses life among the Englisch. But as Christmas approaches, handsome widower Yost Weaver is determined to show her that Plain love is a flame that never goes out.
The Christmas Candle by Lisa Jones Baker
Blessing those in need at Christmastime is one of Lydia’s favorite traditions. But without her newly married sister’s help this year, the task seems daunting—until handsome Mennonite John King shows her that hands joined to do good may unite hearts, as well.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Three of Kensington's most popular Amish romance authors reconvene around the warmth of hand-poured candles and indulge in less traditional pairings in this year's Amish Christmas novella trio. In Long's saccharine "Snow Shine on Ice Mountain," Naomi's father hires a young man to help her in the candle shop, but it turns out he's using it as a cover for his job as a moonshine runner. The two colleagues experience a mysterious Christmas love miracle with supernatural underpinnings, a plot twist both unsatisfyingly abrupt and out of line with the conventions of Amish romances. Beckstrand's "A Honeybee Christmas" uplifts the idea of being one's true self and serves as a sprightly, satisfying, and occasionally hilarious coda to her Honeybee Sisters trilogy, as grumpy traditionalist Yost Weaver is both distressed and fascinated by his growing affection for Bitsy Kiem, the girlfriend of his youth turned outrageous empty nester with a very non-Amish fashion sense. Continuing the theme of embracing a modest amount of change and difference, an Amish girl battles the loneliness of her sister's departure by diving into the charity baking drive of an attractive Mennonite neighbor's family in Baker's gently good-natured "The Christmas Candle," which ends with a recipe.
