The Courtship Plan
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5.0 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Finding a husband is serious business. And serious business requires serious planning.
Charity Raber is one of many single women who came to Birch Creek, Ohio, with one goal in mind: secure a husband from among the desperate bachelors a newspaper advertisement claimed inhabited the town. Even though that claim proved to be nothing more than a cruel prank, Charity is still hopeful that her happy ending might be within reach when she’s set up on a date with Jesse Bontrager. That is until Jesse not-so-gently shares that he has no interest in a relationship with anyone—and especially not with her.
One year later, Charity is working as a caretaker for a kind, elderly English woman in the nearby town of Marigold. She’s also working hard on a brand-new courtship plan. A plan that absolutely does not involve Jesse Bontrager. But when he moves next door and is made aware of her scheming, Charity vows to prove that her plan is foolproof. Meanwhile, Jesse is sure she’ll make a fool of herself. And for some reason he’s not willing to let that happen.
This stubborn bachelor and determined bachelorette will soon learn that their plans rarely work out as expected—but God’s plans always will.
Sweet Amish romanceThe first book in the Amish of Marigold seriesBook length: 87,000 wordsIncludes discussion questions for book clubs
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This sweet series launch from Fuller (Sold on Love) follows an unlikely romance between a socially awkward Amish woman and the Amish man who once humiliated her. As a joke, 15-year-old Jesse Bontrager places a newspaper ad boasting the number of eligible Amish bachelors (his brothers among them) in Birch Creek, Ohio, but he gets a taste of his own medicine after his brother tricks him into going on a date with the most desperate woman to answer the ad, Charity Raber. Jesse catches onto his brother's prank and insults Charity, who runs out in embarrassment and moves away. A year later, Jesse moves to Marigold, Ohio, and learns that he's neighbors with Charity, who works as a live-in nurse for Shirley, the Englisch woman who lives next-door. Shirley catches wind of a far-fetched "courtship plan" Charity has devised to find a husband and asks Jesse to talk Charity out of it because Shirley knows only God can mend Charity's heart. Jesse obliges and develops a soft spot for Charity. Despite their history, she warms to Jesse as well, but becomes furious after learning that he placed the ad as a prank, leading Jesse to search for a way to make up for humiliating her. Fuller's fluid prose and the chemistry between the leads are sure to entertain. This winsome romance charms.
