the Amish Widower and Beekeeper: A Clean Romance of Second Chances (Stonebridge Book 2)

Rebekah Esh has kept the hives of three families since she was nineteen, and she has never once had to ask any of them for anything. The child who will not speak is a different kind of keeping. The lid of the third hive comes up hard at the back and easy at the front, and Rebekah knows what that means before she has it clear of the box. Foulbrood does not stay in one hive. It takes the frames, the boxes and the season with it, and it takes them quietly. Daniel Weaver mends wheels a mile from her orchard. His wife is buried at the top of the meadow and his daughter Lena has not spoken since the funeral - not to him, not to the school, not to the bishop who came and sat with his hat on his knee and waited. So the district does what the district does. Somebody suggests that Rebekah, who has time and no household of her own, might sit with the girl in the afternoons. Rebekah says yes before she has thought about it, because saying yes is the only way she knows how to be of use. What she has never noticed is that carrying everything for everybody is its own kind of pride, and that a woman who never asks leaves no room for anyone to give. Lena works that out before she does. A closed-door Amish romance about grief, bees, a silent child and a second chance neither of them went looking for. Faith, community and a gentle happy ending. Book 2 of Stonebridge Amish. Each book follows a new couple and can be read on its own.