Shelley Shepard Gray

Addie Holmes is Apple Creek's resident wallflower. She is kind and giving and has a lot to be grateful for. But she is full of self-doubt because her parents did not want her and gave her to her grandmother to raise. Now her life seems to be just hard work and loneliness. Wary of romance, Addie assumes no man will look beyond her glasses and her tendency to talk to her rescue donkey, Snickers -- until the day she receives a note from a secret admirer....

It?s set to be a white Christmas in Hart County, and Grace King is pet-sitting in a beautiful home with only a difficult dachshund for company. Living right next door is John Michael Miller. He?s a fireman now, but five years ago, he had courted her older sister, then broke her heart. Seeing him again stirs Grace?s anger, but also reminds her of deeper feelings she?s done her best to deny. John Michael had walked away all those years ago when he realized...

When detective Luke Reynolds enters a Kentucky Amish community to investigate the mysterious death of Perry Borntrager, the case becomes complicated when he falls for the woman Perry had been courting before he disappeared. --

The tragic and untimely death of an old friend has made Elizabeth Anne rethink not only her priorities but her courtship with David, her longtime neighbor and suitor. Though he's Mennonite like herself and has her parents' approval, she feels that a spark is missing and she breaks things off. When her family becomes upset with her decision, Elizabeth Anne turns to her friends for support. One of them is Will, a man with a good heart who has always...

"In the second installment of the Seasons of Sugarcreek series, as a flash flood threatens everything they hold dear, two people must determine how much they'll sacrifice for a chance at true love" --Provided by publisher.

"Until Robert Miller met Lilly Allen, his world had been dark. A widower after only two years of marriage, he'd been living in a haze, feeling that, at twenty-four, his life was already over. But thanks to his friendship with Lilly, he now has new reasons to wake up each day. He knows his connection to her doesn't make sense. She's only nineteen, with a past the whole town talks about. Even more, she's not Amish, like Robert. A marriage between the...

"Three months ago, everything changed for Darla Kurtz and her family. Darla's father was responsible for a terrible fire at Charm's lumber mill which killed five Amish men. And though he, too, lost his life, the town of Charm hasn't looked at her family the same since. Now her brother's anger at the town is spilling over onto Darla, and she has the bruises to prove it. The accident already cost five lives, but if something doesn't change soon, Darla...

Amelia Kinsinger is the perfect Amish woman. And while Amelia takes pride in her role as homemaker, she?s also harboring a secret: She?s been in love with bad boy Simon Hochstetler for as long as she can remember. Life hasn?t been kind to Simon. He ran away from an abusive home at fifteen and things went downhill from there. Eventually, Simon landed in prison. Now back in Charm as a grown man, he?s determined to make a new life for himself. He?s loved...

An Amish woman's past deeds may ruin her one chance at happiness in Shelley Shepard Gray's Wanted, book two in the Sisters of the Heart series.
Twenty-year-old Katie Brenneman has always quietly fancied Jonathan Lundy. So when the brokenhearted widower asks her to help him take care of his two young girls, Katie knows it will be a trying time—yet she cannot pass up a golden opportunity to get to know this man better.
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When Perry Borntrager's lifeless body is found in an abandoned well, the quiet Amish community of Crittenden, Kentucky, is shaken by this terrible tragedy, and Perry's former girlfriend and his best friend, suspects in the crime, form an unlikely friendship as they try to prove their innocence.