Carrie Weaver is in love with Solomon (Sol) Riehl and intends to run away with him when he becomes a pitcher for a professional baseball team. They can do this without being shunned by their families because they haven’t been baptised yet. Carrie’s father dies a few days before Carrie and Sol want to run away. Carrie tells Sol she cannot leave without her little brother Andy, and he says he cannot take care of the three of them.
Carrie is heart-broken when she finds out that Sol has left the community without her. She remains with her step-mother Esther and accepts the marriage proposal from Daniel Miller, the son of her father’s friend Eli. Daniel is a quiet, handsome man and they are married quickly. Eli dies, and Daniel retreats even further, and then Daniel is killed in a road accident, leaving Carrie and Andy with Daniel’s grandmother.
This book was really interesting: the Weavers and Millers are Amish – but from different States, and apparently there’s a big difference in how they quilt etc. Though romance really isn’t my favourite genre, I did enjoy this book and was cheering Carrie’s budding romance on.
Read for the PopSugar Reading Challenge 2025
Prompt 38: Two books with the same title (2)
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
