A Christmas Haven

Name: A Christmas Haven
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Cindy Woodsmall
ISBN: 9781980054771

Author: Cindy Woodsmall, Erin Woodsmall

Narrator: Stina Nielsen

Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/24/2019

Categories: Fiction, Christian Fiction, Romance

Synopsis

For fans of holiday romances and Amish life comes a new Christmas tale of surprising expectations and discovering miracles. Old Order Amish Ivy Zook is wrestling with her need to shed her community's ways so she can grow the business of her dreams: planning parties. As long as she's stuck living without modernization, she can barely get her business on its feet. But if she leaves too soon, she'd cause trouble for her sister, Holly, who is planning her wedding to Joshua Smucker. All of their plans become twice as complicated when an old car crashes into the storefront of Greene's Pharmacy, carrying a Swartzentruber (ultra-conservative sect) Amish man, Arlan, and his very ill sister. The Zooks take in Arlan and Madga, tending to the woman's illness and Arlan begins helping around the family farm. Ivy and Arlan are on different tracks, one wanting to leave her community and the other to return to his. But both young people are trying to discover what God has in store for their futures and what miracles might lie around the corner this Christmas season.

About Cindy Woodsmall

Cindy Woodsmall and her husband make their home in Georgia and have raised and home schooled three sons. Her husband became her staunchest supporter while she took writing courses, attended seminars, and strove to write a story from seeds sown years ago when her best friend was a Beachy Amish Mennonite girl. When the Heart Cries is Cindy's first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deanne on September 14, 2019

"Who I am can't be defined by breaking bonds with my family. It can only be defined by blooming right where He planted me." Erin and Cindy Woodsmall have coauthored four books together including this their third Christmas one. I look at this book as a sequel to The Amish Remedy, last year's Christmas......more

Goodreads review by Gloria on August 28, 2019

A Christmas Haven is the second book in the series, An Amish Christmas Romance, and another great feel good story of how the Amish approach life and deal with issues that come up within their church community. In these stories, the young adult women want to have a life that is non-traditional in the......more

Goodreads review by Laura on July 14, 2019

My thoughts: A CHRISTMAS HAVEN is kind of a sequel to The Amish Remedy and readers will want to read them in order to get Holly and Josh's story - and the pharmacy. I enjoyed getting to know Ivy and Arlan and hope for a future story about Red and Magda. A CHRISTMAS HAVEN is heartbreaking with the way......more

Goodreads review by Shirley on October 19, 2019

A Christmas Haven is a sequel to The Christmas Remedy. The title is what the book is really about. An Old Order Amish home becomes a Haven to a brother and sister who have fled from their Amish Swartzentruber parents. The young teenage girl is pregnant and her body is rejecting the change. Even thou......more

Goodreads review by Maureen on August 09, 2019

I enjoyed this second book in this series, and love being updated in the lives of the previous characters, and now moving on with some of the other folks me met in Christmas Remedy, and note that they can stand alone, but love having read both. We meet a young man willing to sacrifice all he has for......more