I like books about quilting, but it wasn't that prevalent, although Ella did finish her quilt even though her fiancé dies at the beginning. We didn't even get to know him. Although, the blurb on the back says the bishop comes to ask for her hand, it doesn't happen until about 2/3 in to the story. Most of the book is taken up with funerals. milking and other chores, and house building. I learned more about that than I cared to, but the author being male, probably knew more about it than quilting. The library doesn't have the next in the series, or I'd read it, but I'm okay not reading it. ( )

I have read another of Jerry's books "Rebecca's Choice" and really enjoyed it. Jerry write about the Amish a little different than the other authors that I have read. He does not use as many German words and it is better to understand.

Ella and Aden are planning their wedding but they have to wait until Ella turns twenty-one, they both have been baptised into the Amish church and just have to wait. Meanwhile Aden is working with his own business building houses and has a crew to help alone with his brother Daniel. He get sick with his side hurting but refuses to go to the doctor and when he did go it was too late, his appendix had burst a few days before and the poison had gone all thought his body and even with surgery at Tri-County hospital he could not be saved, This entire book is about Ella and how she handles the healing process of losing his only love and on she did love him so much. Ella was working on her quilt for their home together now does she want to finish it, so just put it up somewhere.

As the story progresses the young people all talk about things happened in threes and they wondered who else was going to die. I have always heard this also and it does seen to happen a lot of the time.

There are more things that happen and there are others that die or get killed in the area and too the Amish community. Life had to go one and so many chores had to be done that no one really had the time to think too much about "what might happen". Before long Ella had a visitor and her mama took him down to the basement to talk to him, it was a young man that is a Bishop and he wants to ask for Ella's hand in marriage. After Mamm talked with him, Ella went and talked and she did not say she would not marry him but told him to wait for six months and ask again, she needed time to try and heal from losing Aden.

So will she marry the Bishop or will there be someone else come into her life. She will only marry for love so in April when Ella's Choice comes out, we will be able to read more about her life. I will be happy to read more as this book left me hanging.

This book was sent to me free from the Author Jerry S. Eicher for my honest review.