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Informationen zum Autor Marianne Ellis , author of Summer Promise , is the pseudonym for two accomplished writers: JoAnn Brown and Cameron Dokey. Jo Ann Brown has written over ninety books in the romance genre. She currently writes in The Patchwork Mysteries series for Guideposts and Thorndike, and she wrote the novelization for Thomas Kinkade’s The Christmas Cottage for Berkley. Her interest in the Amish goes back many years when she and her family lived in Pennsylvania not far from Lancaster County. Cameron Dokey began her writing career in 1994. Since that time she has more than thirty works of fiction to her credit including romances for readers of all ages. Her young adult works have appeared regularly on the ALA most recommended lists. Brown and Dokey also collaborated on the Candace Steele paranormal romance series for Ballantine Books. Klappentext With the heat of summer comes the warmth of sunlight, shadows of the past, and Miriam's chance to win the heart of the only man she's ever loved—her husband. The death of Jakob Lapp, a beloved member of the Amish community and the builder of the Stonyfield Farm Stand, is difficult for all. On the day of Jakob's funeral, his beloved daughter Miriam must deal with her grief as well as mounting apprehension, knowing that she will soon see her sister Sarah who left the Amish community to live the Englisch life several years ago. Sarah's arrival forces Miriam to face the problems in her marriage. She has been unable to give her husband, Daniel, a child and fears he is not happy. Miriam has always suspected that Daniels's heart truly lies with her sister, and she worries about the effect Sarah's return will have on their already strained marriage. But when a disaster threatens the farm stand, everyone must come together, allowing new hope to grow not only for the community, but for Miriam as well . . . FIRST IN A NEW SERIES! Leseprobe One Miriam Brennemann stood at her kitchen window, gazing out toward the green fields beyond. It was a still summer morning in early July, the color just beginning to creep along the edges of the sky. The air carried a chill, and the floor of the big farmhouse kitchen was cool beneath Miriam's bare feet, but she had been up at this hour often enough to recognize the promise of the day: It would warm up soon enough, turning hot and fine. Oh, Daed, she thought. This is just the kind of day you always loved. On an ordinary day, Miriam would be bustling about the kitchen, preparing the breakfast that she and her husband, Daniel, would share when he came in from feeding the livestock in the barn. Miriam's father, Jacob Lapp, would come from his section of the house, the dawdi-haus, to join them. The three would talk over the work for that day, drinking the kaffi Miriam always made strong and dark, eating the hearty breakfast all would need for the long hours of work ahead. Then Daniel would head to the fields while Miriam and Jacob walked to the end of the long, straight drive that led from the farmhouse to the main road. There, they worked together to ready the family farm stand for that day's business. But everything was different now. Jacob Lapp had died three days earlier, passing quietly in his sleep, a simple and straightforward relinquishing of earthly life and a moving on to his new life, with God. Today he would be laid to rest beside Miriam's mother, Edna, the wife who died of a fever so long ago. There were many who would come to honor her father, Miriam knew, for Jacob had been both well respected and well loved among his Plain and Englisch neighbors alike. But the one who would come the farthest was Miriam's younger sister, Sarah. Sarah. Sarah is coming home! Miriam tried to picture the sister she hadn't seen in four and a half years. The image...
