With winter's first frost / Kelly Irvin.
Laura Kauffman has been a widow for eight years--since her husband of forty-five years passed away in his sleep on Christmas Eve. She can't stop wondering: What does God expect her to do with her days now? Has her usefulness been expended? Why leave her to carry on alone? Those are questions she can't answer until a friend suffers complications during childbirth and needs someone to help care for her newborn twins and three older children. The twins' great-grandfather, Zechariah Stutzman, a widower himself, seems to need some upkeep as well. Suddenly, Laura has her hands full, and the long winter days don't seem so long.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780310348177
- ISBN: 031034817X
- Physical Description: xiv, 338 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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General Note: | Includes discussion questions. Sequel to: Through the autumn air. |
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Subject: | Amish > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Widows > Fiction. Parkinson's disease > Patients > Fiction. Widowers > Fiction. Missouri > Fiction. |
Genre: | Romance fiction. Christian fiction. |
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- 30 of 32 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Montgomery City Public.
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Summary
With Winter's First Frost
With the coldest season comes the warmest of second chances for a lonely widow and widower. At age seventy-three, Laura Kauffman knows she is closer to the end of life than the beginning. If God willed it, she would join her beloved late husband soon. Even so, Laura wonders what purpose God might have for her in this winter of her life--and why this season seems so lonely. Widower Zechariah Stutzman is facing his own barren season, despite the great-grandchildren swirling around him. With his Parkinson's worsening, he had no choice but to move in with his grandson's family, though now he feels adrift and useless. When Laura offers to help with Zechariah's five great-grandchildren after their mother has a difficult childbirth, Zechariah is unsure how he will adjust to the warm but tart demeanor of this woman he has known since grade school. But soon Laura and Zechariah learn they are asking God the same questions about loss and hope--and they begin to wonder if He is providing answers after all. With Winter's First Frost reminds us that God's purposes always bear fruit--and sometimes love is sweeter with age. Sweet, stand-alone Amish romance The fourth installment of the An Every Amish Season Series Book 1: Upon a Spring Breeze Book 2: Beneath the Summer Sun Book 3: Through the Autumn Air Book 4: With Winter's First Frost Includes discussion questions for book clubs