The Amish Man Who Came Back: A Clean Romance of Forgiveness (Stonebridge Book 3)

Eight years ago Levi Yoder left Stonebridge, and the district agreed what to think of him. Anna Schrock has never had cause to change her mind - until he comes back and starts baking a mile and a quarter up the north road. Anna lights the bake-house fire at twenty past three in the morning, the way her grandmother lit it and her mother lit it, and she has never been given a reason for the hour. She bakes for the store at the crossroads. She is good at it, and she is the only one left who is. Levi came back in January with a slate-roofed shed and an oven that runs hot. He does not explain himself to anyone. He does not ask to be let back in. He simply puts his bread in later than anybody would, because that is what that oven needs. The district has a word for what Levi was under for eight years, and the word did not stop being true when he drove back down the lane. Bishop Amos Yoder must decide what is owed and by whom, and he has never once enjoyed that part of it. Anna has held on to her judgement because letting go of it would feel like a betrayal of everyone who stayed. What she has not counted is what the holding costs her - and it is not costing him nearly as much. A closed-door Amish romance about judgement, two ovens, and a homecoming the whole district has an opinion about. Faith, forgiveness and a hard-won happy ending. Book 3 of Stonebridge Amish. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.