I’ve
always liked the author Kim Vogel Sawyer, this book was just another of hers
that had me after the first couple of pages.
She writes often about the Amish or Mennonite people. This book was about a couple who were part of
a Mennonite community. Anthony and Marty
Hirschler married and he caught the Mumps after rendering him sterile. She lost the baby she carried the first one
and now her life is nothing like she thought it would be. They are falling
further and further away from each other and Marty is having problems with her
faith in God. She can’t stand to be around her family members that have little
ones or are pregnant because it just hurts too much!
Her
friend Brooke a childhood friend who is not Mennonite writes and invites the
couple to come and help run a construction crew to turn a ghost town into a
resort community. Anthony has a
construction crew in Indiana. There are
many issues that come up through the story as I read it. The book left me wanting to keep reading it,
I carried it around where ever I went, to get a page in here and there. The book was very interesting, compelling,
and I liked the story line. The
characters were well developed as well as the story line. Of course, God and the Bible are referenced
in the book as the author enjoys a full time speaking and writing
ministry.
I received this book from the
publisher through their book launch program. @WaterBrookjMultnomah #Partner.
An Old Order
Mennonite couple's vows and beliefs are challenged in this stirring
contemporary novel for fans of Cindy Woodsmall or Shelley Shepherd Gray.
Anthony and Marty Hirschler are part of an Old Order Mennonite community in Pine Hill, Indiana. The couple has grown apart since a doctor confirmed they would never have children. Marty longs to escape the tight-knit area where large families are valued, and the opportunity to do so arises when her childhood friend, Brooke Spalding, resurfaces with the wild idea of rebuilding a ghost town into a resort community. Brooke hires Anthony to help with the construction, drawing the Hirschlers away from Indiana and into her plan, and then finds herself diagnosed with cancer. Moral complications with Brooke's vision for a casino as part of the resort and the discovery of a runaway teenager hiding on the property open up a world neither the Hirschler’s nor Brooke had considered before. Will they be able to overcome their challenges and differences to help the ones among them hurting the most?
Anthony and Marty Hirschler are part of an Old Order Mennonite community in Pine Hill, Indiana. The couple has grown apart since a doctor confirmed they would never have children. Marty longs to escape the tight-knit area where large families are valued, and the opportunity to do so arises when her childhood friend, Brooke Spalding, resurfaces with the wild idea of rebuilding a ghost town into a resort community. Brooke hires Anthony to help with the construction, drawing the Hirschlers away from Indiana and into her plan, and then finds herself diagnosed with cancer. Moral complications with Brooke's vision for a casino as part of the resort and the discovery of a runaway teenager hiding on the property open up a world neither the Hirschler’s nor Brooke had considered before. Will they be able to overcome their challenges and differences to help the ones among them hurting the most?
