PROMISE LODGE & GIVEAWAY

Promise Lodge

by Charlotte Hubbard

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GENRE: Amish/Inspirational Romance

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BLURB:

Energetic widow Mattie Bender Schwartz is working day and night to get Promise Lodge going. She’s also hoping the change will help her son Noah’s heart to heal after his broken engagement. But his former fiancée, Deborah, is looking for a fresh start too. Filled with regret, and cast out by her dat for a reason she can’t yet reveal, Deborah can only pray Noah will forgive her foolishness.

Deborah is the last person Noah expected to show up at Promise Lodge. But with her cruel words still ringing in his head, he’s reluctant to accept her apology—even if the Old Order ways demand he try. If only he could obey Christ’s most important commandment: love one another. But one thing is certain—his mother and aunts, and their beloved Preacher Amos, will do their best to help him get there.

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EXCERPT:

Deborah was cornered. Sooner or later these dear friends would receive the bad news in a letter from someone, so there was no point in stalling. “The um, barn on the Bender home place burned down.”

When Rosetta and Mattie grabbed for each other’s hands, Deborah sighed. She’d been here less than an hour yet she’d distressed half the people she’d seen.

“Dat built that barn when he and Mamm moved onto the place, when they were first married,” Mattie recalled sadly. “In the winter when the leaves were off the trees, I could see it from my kitchen window, across the fields.”

“Jah, more than sixty years it sat on our hill, like a guardian angel for the farm,” Rosetta said with a hitch in her voice. “I’m awfully glad our parents weren’t alive to witness this.”

“Why do I suspect Chupp and his English buddies were involved?” Roman muttered. “Their names came up after Aunt Christine and Uncle Willis’s barn caught fire. And with the new owners not yet living on the Bender farm, those guys probably figured they could hang out there and no one would be the wiser.”

“Don’t go repeating gossip as gospel, Roman,” Mattie said sharply. “It’s one thing to have our suspicions, but another thing to speculate about these fires without knowing the facts.”

“After catching Isaac snooping around at my place awhile back,” Preacher Amos joined in, “I tend to agree with Roman. And although I stood firm against getting the county sheriff involved when the Hershbergers lost their barn—and the man of their family,” he added with an apologetic glance at Phoebe and Laura, “I felt we gave the bishop a very convenient opportunity to look the other way. Every time his son’s name has been connected to trouble, Obadiah has claimed that Isaac’s in his rumspringa—sowing his wild oats—so he’s exempt from the rules church members must follow. That’s the main reason I left his district.”

Deborah knew quite well how Obadiah Chupp covered for his errant son. She had also understood why her father, Preacher Eli, had decided that her missing kapp, her tumble-down hair, and her muddy, scraped knees told of activities too sinful to speak of in front of her younger siblings. So he’d sent her away . . .

“And what have you heard about the fire, Deborah?”

Rosetta’s question brought Deborah out of her woolgathering. How much did she dare reveal? Would these friends accuse her of overstepping the rules—taking matters into her own hands by calling 911—the way Dat had? Would they send her packing if they knew what Isaac and his redheaded friend Kerry had done to her? She didn’t want to lie, but she didn’t want to humiliate herself again, either.

“It was Isaac,” she murmured.

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**SPOILER FREE**

REMARKABLE!!! REMARKABLE!!!  REMARKABLE!!!  I can not express into words how good this book is!  The plot of the story is realistic just as the characters are.  You follow the daily lives and feel every emotion they feel.  This book is to die for!  Loved it, loved it, loved it!!!


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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Many moons ago—like, in 1983 while she was still a school librarian—Charlotte Hubbard sold her first story to True Story. This launched her into writing around seventy of those “true confessions” stories over the years, and she’s been a slave to her overactive imagination ever since. Over the course of her writing career, she has sold nearly 50 books—most recently, Amish romance series she’s written as Charlotte Hubbard or Naomi King.

Charlotte lived in Missouri for most of her life, so her Amish stories are set in imaginary Missouri towns. These days she lives in St. Paul, MN with her husband of 40 years and their Border collie, Ramona.

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Promise Lodge, Book 1

Zebra (February 26, 2016)

ISBN-13: 9781420139419 •• ISBN-10: 142013941X

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