Every courting disaster has led him to her.
An Indiana Amish Brides story
After three failed relationships, Amish bachelor Noah Graber would rather disappoint his parents than try again. But when matchmaker Olivia Mae Miller agrees to provide courting lessons, Noah’s perfect match becomes clear—it’s Olivia Mae herself! With ailing grandparents at home, she hadn’t planned on love or marriage. Might a future with Noah be everything she’s been missing?
VANNETTA CHAPMAN has published over one hundred articles in Christian family magazines, receiving over two dozen awards from Romance Writers of America chapter groups. She discovered her love for the Amish while researching her grandfather’s birthplace of Albion, Pennsylvania. Her first novel, A Simple Amish Christmas, quickly became a bestseller. Chapman lives in the Texas Hill Country with her husband.
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A Perfect Amish Match
Vannetta Chapman
ISBN: 978-1-474-09626-3
A PERFECT AMISH MATCH
© 2019 Vannetta Chapman
Published in Great Britain 2019
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“You need to teach me.”
“Pardon me?” Olivia Mae asked.
“You need to give me dating lessons,” Noah said.
“What do you mean?”
“You and me. We’ll go on a few dates…three. That would be a gut number. You can learn how to do most things if you do it three times.”
“That’s a ridiculous suggestion.”
“Why? I learn better from doing.”
“Do you?”
“I’ve already learned not to take a girl to a gas station or a picnic, but who knows how many more dating traps are waiting for me to stumble into them.”
“So this would be…a learning experience.”
“It’s a perfect solution.” He studied her closely and then reached forward and tugged on her kapp string, something no one had done to her since she’d been a young teen in school with a crush on a boy.
“I can tell by the shock on your face and the way you’re twirling that kapp string that I’ve made you uncomfortable. It’s a gut idea, though. We’d keep it businesslike—nothing personal.”
So often life interrupts our plans. Sometimes we’re left feeling like a boat tossed on a stormy sea. During those times, we occasionally bury our dreams believing that they aren’t possible, that they’ll never happen, that we don’t even deserve such happiness.
Olivia Mae has lived just that sort of life. She’s compassionate and kind and giving, but in the process she’s buried her own dreams. As she cares for her grandparents, she decides that while love and marriage and family aren’t things she’ll ever experience, she can at least help others on that path. She becomes a matchmaker.
Noah is a confirmed bachelor. He’s had relationships in the past that always ended badly. He believes he’s defective in some way, and so he envisions a life for himself where he is happy alone. Then he meets Olivia Mae, and they both discover that while they might have given up on their dreams God hasn’t. God has a hope and a plan for them. God wants the very best for them, and that best includes all the things they wanted but didn’t think they deserved.
I hope you enjoyed reading A Perfect Amish Match. I welcome comments and letters at [email protected].
May we continue “giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 5:20).
Blessings,
Vannetta
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
—Song of Solomon 8:7
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
—John 13:35