Runaway Amish Bride (Colorado Amish Courtships) by Leigh Bale

Book Description:
His Amish bride arrives…but he never proposed!
Surprises await in Colorado Amish Courtships
Widower Jakob Fisher isn’t interested in remarrying, even to pretty Abigail Miller. But thanks to his daed’s meddling, Abby’s sitting in his Colorado farmhouse, expecting to be wed. While Jakob can’t offer marriage, he can give Abby a job caring for his young children. But when he starts to fall for her, could Abby make Jakob’s familye happy and whole once again?

This was a sweet story and one that actually includes issues that non-Amish usually face.

As you can tell by the synopsis Jakob has lost his wife and child within the last year, he has also recently lost his father who had made arrangements without Jakob's knowledge to set up a marriage with Abby who has come from Ohio to Colorado to get married to Jakob. (wow that was a heck of a sentence!). Well, things don't go as planned and as per the usual plot line -Jakob doesn't feel that he can ever love again and Abby won't marry unless she is loved and comes first.

While this is a religious book it is not overly so if you are looking for a 'clean' and sweet romance this will hit the right buttons for you.

The only issue I had is that I wasn't sure if the research on the Amish was as careful as it should have been -I (in all of my Amish reading) have never heard of an Amish sect that worked on a Sunday and that includes the women cooking. They (in the books I have read) have always had cold meals that were prepared ahead of the Sabbath.

*ARC supplied by the publisher.