About the Book
Second Chance at Love
Widow Sarah Nolt never expected another marriage proposal. She hardly knows the handsome Amish man who's come to help with her barn raising. Besides, they're both still mourning the loss of their spouses. But Mose Fischer needs a caretaker for his daughters, and Sarah needs to escape her father's oppressive rule. They agree to a marriage of convenience, but when Sarah moves to Mose's Amish community in Florida, she can't help falling for the strong, kind widower and his little girls. To create a family, they'll have to come to terms with their pasts…and the secret Sarah is unknowingly carrying.
This was a well loved library book that was reviewed
My Review
“The Amish Widow's
Secret” by Cheryl Williford appears to be her first published book
and I have to say that it was a book that had me hooked by the page
30. I was hooked because my emotions were fully involved in the
story by that time.
This is a book that I
highly enjoyed and would recommend to anyone looking for a story that
is quick and easy to read. There is a complex yet highly simple plot
(oxymoron I know but it is true) and the characters are wonderful
created. Most times it is pretty easy to see when an author is
getting their first story out there for it seems as if something
important is missing in their writing even if story is really good,
but Ms. Williford's first book didn't have anything missing that I
could see other than a warning about the emotional turmoil within the
pages.
I haven't read too many
marriage for convenience within the Amish genre but this was written
very well. Often I don't pay too much attention to the little
summary on the back of the book, but there was something that I
thought odd about what was said on the back and that was how someone
could carry a secret without knowing it, and then by page 100 I fully
understood what that secret was. I have to say how it all happened
was completely unexpected and lovely twist to the whole story.
Sarah is a young woman
who frankly has a lot on her plate, a lot more than what is hinted at
with the summary on the back of the book, yet she shows remarkable
poise and grace throughout the entire story. That is what made her
so spirited for when things seemed to crashing around her completely,
she held true to her thoughts and beliefs. Regardless what this
woman had been through she held fast to those thoughts and beliefs
which showed remarkable strength and courage. Her heart though could
have been bitter and cold was warm and open to all around her.
Mose is a man who is
willing do to what he must for the sake of his children but only if
it feels right to him and if it is what he is called to do. His
heart is understanding and patient with all those around him, or at
least those he cares for. He has no problem standing on the side
that is right but doesn't allow his temper to get the better of him
for the most part, but like any man he has a breaking point too which
he reaches within the story. It is understandable when he reached
his breaking point and honestly it doesn't last long the emotions
that fill him at that point in time.
I so enjoyed getting to
know Mose and his precious daughters, who have their own
understandable issues, and Sarah. As I got to know them, and I
really did feel like I was a friend welcomed into the telling of
their story instead of characters on a page without their own lives,
I couldn't help but love each and every one of the characters. Yes I
know I sound crazy about talking about fictional characters has if
they are flesh and blood but to me that is what it seemed like as I
was reading this book. They had their faults and their strengths
without one over powering the others, and they had emotions.
As I said before the plot
of the story was complex yet remarkable simple at the same it seems
like. Here are two people who have loved deeply now marrying each
other for different reasons. One is doing it to give his children
the love of a mother, while the other is doing it to escape. The
complexity of the story comes in the form of how these two adults who
barely know each other, but had loved someone close to each of them
in a different way, become friends and more. The simple part of the
plot is the desire to make the best of all what their future holds
because once married there was no going back.
Truly I recommend this
book to all who is looking for that right blend of easy reading and
dive head long into a whole new place somewhere different from home.
