One for the Books: Imagine yourself in Amish country

- Mary Louise Ruehr

Once in a while I like to escape into Amish romance. It’s comforting, it’s clean and wholesome, and there’s almost always a happy ending. Also, many books are short and sweet! All the Amish romances are faith-based, but usually they’re not in-your-face religious. Most of the books I’m familiar with have been set in Ohio or Pennsylvania, so in this group of novels, I picked a few from different states.

A Is for Amish“A Is for Amish” was written by Shelley Shepard Gray, one of the most popular authors in the genre. It’s the first of an alphabet series and is 282 pages long.

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