The Raber Sisters

Amos Beiler is twenty-three and carrying a farm he never asked for. Since his father died, the land, the debts, and a mother and two young ones all rest on his shoulders — and he's decided he has no business wanting anything for himself until it's all set right. He tells himself so every single day.

Then Lydia Riehl comes to Willow Bend for the harvest season. She's quiet, steady, and far too good with a spooked animal, a worn gate latch, and a grieving family that has forgotten how to laugh. She sees straight through Amos's gruffness to the tired, honest man underneath — and slowly, a farm that wants three men starts to feel like less of a burden when she's standing in it.

But Lydia is only in Willow Bend until first frost. There's a kinder, easier man courting her in the open, the whole district reckons it a sensible match, and Amos is too proud and too weighed-down to say the thing he most needs to say.

Some things you only lose because you were too busy being noble to reach for them.

A sweet, closed-door Amish romance — the free prequel to the Willow Bend Romance series, and the story of how the Beiler family began.