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Автор: Jan Drexler
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      FROM AMISH NANNY TO BRIDE?

      After her sweetheart’s betrayal, Ruthy Mummert leaves behind the small-town gossip of her Amish community for the first opportunity she can find: a housekeeper position in faraway LaGrange County, Indiana. Ruthy didn’t realize the job meant caring for ten children—and for their handsome widowed father.

      To Levi Zook’s mind, Ruthy is too young and too pretty to be anyone’s housekeeper. A marriage of convenience will protect her reputation and give his children the security they dearly need. But it could also give them the courage to grasp a new chance at happiness—if Ruthy is willing to risk her wounded heart once more.

      “Why, Levi Zook? Why do you need me to stay? Why would you marry me to keep me from leaving?”

      What could he tell her? He liked her, but more than that, he needed her to keep his family together. He cast about in his mind for reasons—what could he say that would convince her?

      “I… Well, there’s Eliza. She still wants me to send Nellie and Nancy to her.”

      “It would break their hearts to leave you.”

      Levi nodded. “With you here, they have a mother, do you see?”

      Ruth turned back to the stove, her shoulders slumped. “Ja, I see. That’s a good reason, I suppose.”

      A thrill of hope ran through Levi. Would she agree to be his wife?

      “We would make a good family—you and I…”

      “And the children.”

      “Ja, of course.” Levi sighed. This conversation wasn’t going the way he had wanted it to, not

      at all. Why couldn’t he tell her how she made him feel?

      JAN DREXLER

      A recent graduate from Homeschool Mom-hood, Jan Drexler devotes her time to the voices in her head who have been clamoring for attention during the past few decades. Instead of declining Latin nouns and reviewing rhetorical devices, her days are now spent at the computer, where she gives her characters free rein.

      She lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota with her husband of thirty years, their four adult children, an extremely furry Husky, and Maggie, the cat who thinks she’s a dog. If she isn’t sitting at her computer living the lives of her characters, she’s probably hiking in the Hills or the Badlands, enjoying the spectacular scenery.

      A Mother for His Children

      Jan Drexler

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

      —Mark 11:25

      For my aunts: Martha, Waneta and Nancy.

      You taught me what a joy it would be to have sisters!

      And with special thanks to Dawn Field, DVM, who was willing to discuss the details of calves and cows over lunch.

      Soli Deo Gloria

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

       Introduction

       About the Author

       Title Page

       Bible Verse

       Dedication

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Dear Reader

       Questions for Discussion

       Extract

       Copyright

      Shipshewana, Indiana

      January, 1937

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