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Bess Riehl is preparing Rose Hill Farm for her Christmas wedding, but her groom isnt who she thought it would be. Billy Lapp is far away from his Amish roots working as a rose rustler for Penn State and wants nothing to do with Stoney Ridge, his family, or Bess. And that suits Bess just fine. Why should she think twice about a man who left without a word, without any explanation? Its time she moved on with her life, and that meant saying yes to Amos Lapp, Billys cousin and best friend. But as Bess and Amoss wedding day draws near, her emotions tangle into a tight knot. She loves Amos. Yet she cant forget Billy. When a lost rose is discovered at Rose Hill Farm, Billy is sent to track down its origins. Get in, identify the rose, and get out. Thats his plan. The only catch is that hes having a hard time narrowing down the identity of the lost rose, and he cant get those tropical blue eyes of Bess Riehl out of his mind. As the history of the lost rose ...

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2014 by Suzanne Woods Fisher Published by Revell a division of Baker Publishing - photo 1

2014 by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Published by Revell

a division of Baker Publishing Group

P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

www . revellbooks .com

Ebook edition created 2014

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meansfor example, electronic, photocopy, recordingwithout the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

ISBN 978-1-4412-4638-7

Most Scripture used in this book, whether quoted or paraphrased by the characters, is taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Some Scripture used in this book, whether quoted or paraphrased by the characters, is taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Published in association with Joyce Hart of the Hartline Literary Agency, LLC.

To my very special mother-in-law,
Georgia,
who first taught me to love roses.

Contents

A pale thread of gray seeped over the windowsill, wakening Bess Riehl with its strange light. Outside, a limb tapped the eaves. Disoriented, still fuzzy from sleep, she lifted her head to peer out the window and gasped in delight. Overnight, Stoney Ridge had been blanketed with deep snow, transformed into a world of pristine white. Just in time to make the day, this Sunday, all the more special. Not just any Sunday, but the day her engagement would be announced at the end of church. Published, as they called it. And in less than two weeks, she would be married.

Married. She was going to be a married woman. This Christmas, she would be married. For the rest of her life. Absentmindedly, she put her hand against the frosty windowpane to feel the chill. Her insides felt as quivery as her cold fingertips.

Was it normal to feel all trembly inside, scared and excited and filled with strange feelings? She hoped so, because whenever she thought about the bishop announcing her name today in church, she felt light-headed, slightly dizzy, a little nauseous, and terribly worried about fainting. Bess was what her grandmother used to call a nervous little thing, as jumpy as a dog with fleas. Twenty now, she couldnt deny the truth of that, but she was definitely bolder than she was at fifteen when she lived for a summer with Mammi at Rose Hill Farm. Bolder, certainly, and yet Bess still preferred to be invisible in any group setting. Such as... church.

If she couldnt handle having her name announced in public, how would she be able to survive her wedding day? She dropped her head. She had no idea. None at all.

But she wouldnt be alone. Amos would be there too.

Amos Lapp. Her thoughts drifted off to him and a smile eased her anxiety. He was so kind, was Amos. They had met, years ago, through his cousin Billy Lapp, whom Bess refused to allow herself to think about for more than a moment or two, once or twice a week. Mostly, she wondered where Billy was and if he ever thought about her. And what he thought about her. And why he left.

Stop. Stop it, Bess !

There. She expunged Billy Lapp from her mind and went back to thinking about Amos, whom she adored. Not Billy, whom she didnt.

In a way, she envied Amos. He loved her so completely, so thoroughly. There was no doubt in his mind that Bess was the only girl for him. She didnt think she could ever feel so sure, so free of doubts about her feelings. Amoss devotion reminded her of the way she had once felt about Billy Lapp, but she was much younger then. Young and foolish. Die erscht Lieb roscht net, awwer schimmelich maag sie waerre, her grandmother used to say. First love does not rust, but it might get moldy.

Thats what had happened to her feelings about Billy. Molded.

Amos was a fine choice for a partner in life, in work. He was older than Bess by a few years, was already managing his late fathers farm at Windmill Farm, was solid and generous and accepting of Besss timorous nature. He was trustworthy and devoted and calm natured and he wasnt wishy-washy about being Plain or loving Bessunlike that someone else whom she tried not to think about. And then she realized what she was doing. Comparing.

Stop it, Bess. Stop it!

She covered her face with her hands. Why was she struggling to tamp down thoughts about Billy lately?

Billy Lapp had been Besss first love. Only twelve when she had first met him after her grandfathers funeral, she remembered feeling struck dumb by his good looks. But it was on her second visit to Rose Hill Farm, when she was fifteen and had come to Stoney Ridge for a short visit only to end up staying, that she lost her heart to him.

It was the summer when her widowed father had met and married Lainey. Bess had fallen head over heels in love with Billy but was caught in something her friend Maggie Zook called a classic love triangle. Maggie knew all about these kinds of things from reading romance novels on the sly. Bess loved Billy, Billy loved Betsy Mast, Betsy loved someone else who didnt love her. Besss love for Billy was dampened, watered down, but not extinguished. Not entirely. Then, the following year, she and Billy were slowly but surely finding their way to each other. Suddenly, Betsy Mast reappeared, out of the blue, on the same day that Billy had a terrible row with his family, and he left Stoney Ridge without a glance back.

Once again, Bess felt her heart shrink like a sponge being wrung out. It was always in the back of her mind that, given the chance, Billy might choose Betsy over her as he had once done. It had been a sore point between them, and yet she understood it toomaybe there was just something about that first love. A tiny part of her couldnt let go of Billy.

And Amos, dear Amos, had always known a part of her longed for Billy. He courted her patiently and persistently, all the while his dark brown eyes would search her face, trying to see into her heart.

Last month, when Amos asked her to marry him for the third time, he told her that he wanted an answer and he wanted it to be yes. She knew it was time to face reality. Billy was gone, Amos was here. Billy did not love her in a wholehearted way. Amos did.

A conversation shed once had with her grandmother floated up from the recesses of her mind. Bess, Mammi would say, you cant go back, not in this life. You have to go forward.

So she had said yes.

Still, a nagging thought kept poking at her, like a sliver in her finger. Why wasnt she more excited about getting married? She should be. Amos Lapp was a wonderful man. But she could never bring herself to tell him that she loved him in return. She thought she did love him, but the words clogged in her throat whenever she tried. Was it because she had imagined saying those words to Billy?

Stop it, Bess . Stop!

She turned from the window and dressed quickly, then hurried outside to be the first to make footprints in the snow, before her father woke and started choring. Childish, she knew, for someone her age, but she couldnt help herself. It was a game she and her dad had played for as long as she could remember. Lainey, her dads wife, only smiled and rolled her eyes at their silly traditions.

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