If spring is a season of rebirth and love, Hallie Lapp's farm, at first glance, seems the place to be. What she didn't see coming after the birth of her daughter, Redbird, was an abandoned baby dropped off in her buggy as part of the Safe Haven law. She couldn't imagine a runaway girl, Annie Hosteller, showing up on her door step, either. Once Nurse Hal is forced to meet the scary men from the Hosteller compound, life isn't the same for the Amish community for months to come. In the middle of the night, Joseph Hosteller sends his sons to search for Annie and her baby. They beat up Amish...

Join the fun. You are invited to the wedding of John Lapp and Nurse Hal. Family and friends have gathered to cook, clean and plan. Men have put up a tent for the guests, so put on your bonnet or felt hat, hitch up your buggy and take a ride by scenic pastures and rolling hills to Wickenburg, Iowa. Take a seat on a bench next to Hal's folks. They will be glad to explain the ceremony, because they came armed with Aunt Tootie's book on Amish customs. You will find a few surprises when little Daniel Lapp interrupts the bishop when he asks if anyone objects to the couple's marriage. Oh and Stella...

Fay Risner in Book two of her Nurse Hal Amish series links the modern world to the timeless Amish way of life when Nurse Hallie Lindstrom falls in love with Amish widower John Lapp. This is a fascinating look at two differing cultures set in an intricate and richly detailed tapestry of a traditional Amish setting in southern Iowa. The Amish simple way of life based on faith, convictions and honesty is entwined in this love story between an English woman and an Amish man. Hallie Lindstrom, Home Health Nurse, has copper red hair, a fondness for jeans and owns a copper sedan which inhibits the...

Early spring is once again turning the snow melted hills of southern Iowa into green, lush pastures filled with livestock and their capering newborns. Amish farmers are in the fields, tilling and planting corn. In the Amish community, usually it isn't mentioned outside of the family and close friends when new babies are expected. This particular spring all that changes in Nurse Hal's community. At least for the Lapp family. Hal's expecting a baby very soon and not feeling well with so much work to do for her family. That's why she's pleasantly surprised and grateful when she receives a letter...

Welcome to the Lapp farm near Wickenburg in southern Iowa. Come to visit and bring your sense of humor. Dependable Emma Lapp dreams about the same fate that happens to all teenage Amish girls. Eventually, she will fall in love, marry and have a large family, but she's been offered the teacher's job for a term. That means working away from home and leaving Nurse Hal to take care of the household while she's still trying to perfect her cooking skills. That worries Emma. She doesn't think Nurse Hal is ready to take on the responsibilities of homemaker and continue her nursing duties at the same...

An American version of Miss Marple in 1903, Gracie Evans, a retired, spinster farmer, tries to resign herself to the fact she now lives in Moser Mansion, a rest home for women, in Locked Rock, Iowa. That small town is never going to be the same again as long as Miss Gracie Evans is watching all that goes on at the neighbors. She wrestles with boredom as she remembers how active she was on the farm. Her only diversion now is rocking on the front porch while she keeps track of the neighbors. Join Gracie and another resident, Melinda Applegate, while they spy on the neighborhood through peek...

A stranger shows up at Moser Mansion Rest Home For Women in Locked Rock, Iowa claiming to be Melinda Applegate's nephew. She welcomes him with open arms, but Gracie Evans is sure the man is a crook out to steal Melinda's money. She sets out to prove the man is up to no good against all odds. Everyone at the mansion thinks Gracie is jealous of the nephew because Melinda spends so much time with him. It's true that Gracie is left to rock alone, but she has a gut feeling that this man is a shyster. At the same time all sorts of upheaval happens at the mansion after Molly Moser Lang, the owner,...

Nurse Hal invites her parents to visit the Lapp farm near Wickenburg, Iowa to get acquainted with their two little granddaughters. She's in total turmoil when she hears she's going to get more company than she bargained for. Jim and Nora Lindstrom are bringing Nora's sister, Tootie, with them. Nurse Hal is sure her family is going to be shunned when scatterbrained Aunt Tootie does or says the wrong thing around their Amish friends. With all the scenarios that Hal imagined, she didn't come close to dreaming up the things this a little plumb off center aunt could do to get them in trouble with...

The Moser Mansion Rest Home For Women residents are summoned to appear at the county seat to testify against Mavis Jordan at her murder trial. The county seat turns out to be a deadly place for Gracie Evans. A mysterious man stalks her with the intention of killing her. She starts to wish she'd never visited the big city and actually misses Locked Rock, Iowa. She fears she will be the next victim of The County Seat Killer.

Emma Lapp is marrying Adam Keim. Excitement prevails as Emma and her step-mother, Hallie, discuss details for the wedding. Soon Emma's excitement turns to dread. Nothing is going right. She planned on the former teacher to substitute teach for a month. She didn't plan on Ellen Miller being eight months pregnant with twins. Who else could Emma trust to teach her students? The Weber sisters are in a family upheaval over their cooking and garden methods. She wants them to bake her wedding cake. What if they get so upset with each other the cake doesn't get made? Emma would like to discuss her...