Is it Greener on the Other Side?
Trini is a young adult who is very driven. Despite being single and Amish, she has her own home, and a very successful business, a quilt shop. To achieve her goals, she makes extensive lists about everything. Highly organized Trini has listed every aspect of her life, and she follows each list that she makes, with no deviations.
Currently, her most important list is her secret one, she is leaving the Amish. Her list has everything planned to make her exit. Then a childhood friend, Jacob, comes back into her life, and she is blind-sided.
When they were children, the two of them spent one summer together, and formed a strong bond. In fact, when Jacob left, he made a card for Trini asking her to marry him. Now Jacob is back, clearly wanting to live the Amish life, and he wants a relationship with Trini. She enjoys spending time with him, but she can’t let herself feel too strongly for him.
Trini does not know if she will find a non-Amish man she likes–truthfully loves–as much as she does Jacob. She is confused. All her plans and lists are made; Trini believes she must follow through. Jacob coming back into her life was not on any of her lists. Surely, she must press forward.
This romance didn’t seem like it could work. Trini strongly believes she wants to live as an Englischer, while Jacob feels just as strongly that he wants to live the Amish life. But God will make a way when there is no way:
“For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.” Isaiah 43:19 NLT
It is fun to read about what happens to this relationship, along with the entire clean story. Fans of Amish, and those of good stories, will enjoy this tale.
Thank you, Barbour Press, for providing Tickmenot with a complimentary copy of, “The Quilt Room Secret,” by Lisa Jones Baker, for the purpose of review. I have not been compensated in any other manner. All opinions expressed are my own, and I was not required, or influenced, to give anything but an honest appraisal.
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