Amish by Accident

✍ Scribed by Spredemann, J. E. B.

• Publisher: Blessed Publishing
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Series: Amish by Accident Trilogy 2
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

If you're looking for Different Amish Fiction, this is it!

Amish by Accident is a "What if...?" story. If you only enjoy realistic plotlines, this book is probably not for you. But if you enjoy fun, fast-paced, imaginative plots, this one is sure to make you smile...and maybe even shed a tear or two.

Luke Beiler has loved Elisabeth Schrock for as long as he can remember and is looking forward to the day they both join the church so they can marry. Elisabeth, however, chafes under the church rules and flees to the Englisch world leaving Luke heart broken.

When an accident leaves Brianna Mitchell with amnesia, she feels helplessly lost. What will happen when she is mistaken for Elisabeth Schrock and taken home to Paradise, Pennsylvania?

Inspirational Christian Fiction Approx. 218 pgs. (paperback)

Amish by Accident NOW has a prequel (Englisch on Purpose) and sequel (Christmas in Paradise) available!

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Review

"J.E.B. Spredemann weaves a thread of love and intrigue into a quilt of faith and values..." - Carol, Goodreads

"Wunderbaar!" - Review, Barnes and Noble Nook

"Couldn't put the book down!" - Several Amazon Reviewers

"I enjoyed this book...This book shows you thatwith GOD, anything is possible." - Melina's Book Blog

Excerpt. (c) Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Prologue

Elisabeth Schrock yawned as Minister Fisher's voice droned on and on about how he deemed it necessary for their Amish youth to flee from the things of the world. You've got to be kidding, right? His boys are some of the most unruly in our district. He must be preaching to his own kinner. It took everything she had to not snicker and roll her eyes. Of course, his twins were in Rumspringa just as she was. I've heard all this before. It's always the same old thing. The world is wicked; we must live by the rules of the Ordnung...blah, blah, blah. Her discontentment and restlessness had been growing daily, along with her rebellious attitude. She was sure that if she had to sit through this for another Sunday, she would burst.

She reached inside her hidden apron pocket and clutched the letter she'd received from her best friend, Mattie Riehl. Mattie left her conservative Mennonite community a year earlier and now worked in a fancy skyscraper in New York City. She said she'd met a wonderful Englisch beau and is happier now than she'd ever been. Mattie encouraged Elisabeth to come visit and even offered to share her apartment if she decided to stay long-term. Oh, how she longed for freedom! She was aching to escape the monotony and endless rules and restrictions of the church. I'm going to do it! She decided resolutely.

A cough drew her attention to the men's side of the room. She glanced up to see her handsome beau, Luke Beiler, looking at her curiously. He must've sensed her musing and raised his eyebrows in question. How am I going to leave Luke? He's ready to join the church and be baptized, but I just can't do it right now. There's too much out there that I haven't seen or experienced. I know that if I agree to be baptized this fall with Luke, he'll ask me to marry him. Elisabeth hung her head. Indeed, leaving would be the most difficult decision of her life. Nevertheless, she was determined to do it. Today.

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Leaving his hot coffee, Luke stood up from the breakfast table when Jacob Schrock beckoned him to the porch outside. It was indeed strange for Elisabeth's brother to be visiting on a Monday morning, with all the chores he had to tend to and what not. But Jacob's sober countenance gave pause for concern. His friend held out an envelope to him. It was Elisabeth's handwriting. For Luke. He searched Jacob's face for a sign as to what the contents might be, but Jacob kept his gaze on the wooden boards beneath his feet. Without a word, Luke opened the letter that would forever change his life.

Luke,

I'm sorry. I just don't feel like I belong here with the Plain people in Paradise anymore. Whether I will come back or not, I do not know. Please do not try to find me.

Elisabeth

Heartbroken. It was the only word that could describe Luke Beiler as he let Elisabeth's letter slip through his fingers onto the hard wooden floor. All his hopes and dreams for the future, dashed into a million pieces with just a smidgen of ink on plain white paper.

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