Harvest of Grace

I was so excited to see another Cindy Woodsmall Book on my list of options for my next Blogging for Books book!  I absolutely love everything I have read of hers.  And Harvest of Grace did not disappoint. 

Harvest of Grace is the final book in the Ada House series, which followed the Sisters of the Quilt series I blogged about earlier.  I read the first book in the Ada House Series earlier this summer and still have yet to read the 2nd one.  Thankfully, this series wasn't so tied together that you couldn't read out of order.  All of the characters are the same in the books, but the main characters change in each one, so the focus is different.

In Harvest of Grace a young woman, Sylvia, is betrayed by the man she loves and her sister and feels like she must get away from it all.  She is not your typical Amish woman and much prefers the 'man's' work of a diary farm than the 'woman's' job in the kitchen.  So, to get away from the situation at home she gets a job at a dairy farm far enough away from her family that she won't have to deal with the hurt.

The farm she goes to is owned by a couple with hurting hearts.  They lost their only surviving daughter to an accident and their only surviving son, Aaron,  became an alcoholic and left home.  T(hey had lost 7 other children through miscarriages or soon after birth.)  Thankfully, Aaron sought treatment at the Better Path (which is from the Sister of the Quilt Series and I loved the tie in), overcame his addiction and returned home to try to talk his parents into selling the farm and moving into town with him to run an appliance store he was hopeful to purchase.

Selling the farm meant Sylvia would lose her job and the farm she was coming to love, so she was very threatened by Aaron.  Aaron was threatened by Sylvia in the fact that she was trying to save the farm and give his parents hope of keeping it.  The big question throughout the book is whether they will save the farm and fall in love or go their separate ways.   It keeps you turning the pages.

A while series of events unfold involving other supporting character throughout the book who were also subjects of the first two books and they all tie together nicely.  Since this is the final book in the series, all character's stories are resolved and left for "happily ever after."

Another great Amish series of books by Cindy Woodsmall. 

I received this book for free from Waterbrook/Multnomah publishers for this review.