Amish Unrequited - Deidra Scott

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Résumé :
An anthology of unrequited Amish romances with happy endings (sometimes :)) AMISH UNREQUITED Marcus is a shy Amish man that is capable in all areas of his life except romance. He gets tongue-tied around the young woman he's had a crush on for years. Adding to the problem is that she is in love with his older brother and barely notices him. But when his older brother chooses someone else, she is left heart broken....will the shy Marcus finally speak up and show his crush what a catch he really is? AMISH DREAMS Honor is a young Amish woman who gambled and lost by marrying an Englischer. She returns home to her Amish community with both a sense of shame and disappointment in trying to find true love. She buries herself into her work at the bakery and closes herself off to her desperately desired wish of finding true love. Determined to never again risk her heart, she throws herself into running the family's bakery. But when another Englischer comes into town, Honor cannot help but be drawn to him. He's kind and gentle, a little on the shy side unlike her previous beau. As she gets to know him, she finds out he has his own emotional baggage similar to her own. Can they learn to trust the love that sparks between them and move forward? THE AMISH GOODBYE Abby finally gets her wish to tour the city outside her Amish community. She gets a job at a restaurant and meets a young man named Mac who sweeps her off her feet. Over time, however, she realizes that the Amish community is where she needs to be and returns home, much to the dismay of the young man. Can Mac convince her to stay on the outside world or is she destined to return home? LOVINA Lovina's parents have died a year earlier in a freak buggy accident. The Amish community to which she belongs helps her out but she and her brother begin to work outside the town to make ends meet. Jebidiah, a young man who courted her years earlier returns to the community after he supposed left for good. Now he's returned out of the blue, wanting to help her out and hopefully win her back...but Lovina has changed...She wants to find out about the world outside her community and he wants to her to stay so they can start a family together. Which road will she choose? AMISH LONELY Greta is an overweight Amish woman who has resigned herself to a lonely life of watching other people fall in love and start families. When things go horribly wrong on a blind date, she becomes determined to lose weight. This draws the attention of a former member of the Amish community who comes to visit. He begins courting her as does other single men of the community. But do the truly want her for the person she is on the inside? AMISH VALLEY Naomi is a young woman who is a new convert to the Amish faith. Joining the community, she is soon courted by two eligible young men, a shy farmer and a more extroverted one. When the outgoing one leaves for the big city, she is crushed. Though her heart is with the extroverted one, she considers the shy one's continued interest in her and finds herself falling for him...until her original crush returns...Who will she pick in Amish Valley? A FORK IN THE AMISH ROAD Emily is a woman in her thirties who had left the Amish community years ago because of a pregnancy outside of marriage. Now divorced, she seeks to once again enter the community that has shunned her in the past and make peace with James, the man that she once betrayed.