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Secret Amish Babies #4
Her Hidden Amish Child: An Uplifting Inspirational Romance
Can a little girl…
Heal the wounds of the past?
When Faith Mast inherits her great aunt’s Amish farmhouse, she needs to sell it fast—before someone in the community discovers her daughter’s real identity. Accepting Josiah Brenneman’s help with repairs is risky but might be the perfect solution. That is, until the man she once loved and left wins the little girl’s heart. With secrets still between them, will Faith choose the future she’s always wanted…or repeat the past?
From Love Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
Secret Amish Babies
Book 1: The Midwife's Christmas Wish
Book 2: Her Forbidden Amish Child
Book 3: An Amish Christmas Wish
Book 4: Her Hidden Amish Child
Heal the wounds of the past?
When Faith Mast inherits her great aunt’s Amish farmhouse, she needs to sell it fast—before someone in the community discovers her daughter’s real identity. Accepting Josiah Brenneman’s help with repairs is risky but might be the perfect solution. That is, until the man she once loved and left wins the little girl’s heart. With secrets still between them, will Faith choose the future she’s always wanted…or repeat the past?
From Love Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
Secret Amish Babies
Book 1: The Midwife's Christmas Wish
Book 2: Her Forbidden Amish Child
Book 3: An Amish Christmas Wish
Book 4: Her Hidden Amish Child
- GenresAmish
368 pages, Paperback
Published August 22, 2023
21 people are currently reading
61 people want to read
About the author
Leigh Bale
60 books107 followersLeigh Bale is Publisher's Weekly best selling author. She won the prestigious RWA Golden Heart in 2006 and was a finalist for the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, the Write Touch Reader's Award and the Bookseller's Best Award. She is the daughter of a retired U.S. forest ranger, holds a B.A. in History with honors and loves spending time with family, weeding the garden with her dog Sophie, and watching the little sagebrush lizards that live in her rock flowerbeds. You can reach Leigh at www.LeighBale.com.
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October 3, 2023
overall an entertaining read.
i think there’s needs to be more “show” not “tell.” i felt the author was holding my hand walking me through the characters’ emotions.
also, it took 90 pages for the widow cousin’s name to be mentioned, despite the cousin being mentioned a lot more before that.
there was also a lot of “or was it?” do try to build suspense. it was used twice on one page one time.
i think there’s needs to be more “show” not “tell.” i felt the author was holding my hand walking me through the characters’ emotions.
also, it took 90 pages for the widow cousin’s name to be mentioned, despite the cousin being mentioned a lot more before that.
there was also a lot of “or was it?” do try to build suspense. it was used twice on one page one time.
September 11, 2023
Her Hidden Amish Child by Leigh Bale
Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
Can a little girl…
Heal the wounds of the past?
When Faith Mast inherits her great aunt’s Amish farmhouse, she needs to sell it fast—before someone in the community discovers her daughter’s real identity. Accepting Josiah Brenneman’s help with repairs is risky but might be the perfect solution. That is, until the man she once loved and left wins the little girl’s heart. With secrets still between them, will Faith choose the future she’s always wanted…or repeat the past?
This is Faith Mast and Josiah Brenneman's story.
She could do this. She was an intelligent, thinking woman, and she’d done it zillions of times before.
Standing in the enclosed back porch of her great-aunt’s early-1900s farmhouse, Faith Mast gazed at the postwar-era washer with open hostility. The machine had a simple design, easily adapted to the rumbling diesel generator sitting outside on the wooden deck. As a devout Amish woman, Faith never used electricity. Having been raised in this house by their great-aunt and uncle, Faith and her identical twin sister, Hope, had learned to wash clothes on this device. But ever since Faith got her hand caught between the rollers and broke two fingers, she’d hated this washer so much that she’d named it der umensch.
The monster.
Of all the people in town, why did it have to be Josiah Brenneman who came to her rescue?
At the age of twenty-three, he hadn’t changed. Not one bit. Regaining her balance, she stared at his attractive face. The lean cheeks, long nose and full, perfect lips that had always smiled so easily. He still wore the hard black work boots, broadfall pants, suspenders and white shirt of a plain Amish man. But he wasn’t plain. Not in any way. Though she hadn’t seen him in four long years, she knew him so well. At one time, he’d been the man of her dreams. But not anymore. She’d moved on. They didn’t know each other now and she didn’t love him anymore. But she had undoubtedly broken his heart when she left town without saying goodbye.
If you like to read amish books you will love this book.
I recommend reading.
Her Hidden Amish Child by Leigh Bale is a wonderful well written 5 star book.
I am looking forward to reading more books by Leigh Bale .
Secret Amish Babies
Book 1: The Midwife's Christmas Wish
Book 2: Her Forbidden Amish Child
Book 3: An Amish Christmas Wish
Book 4: Her Hidden Amish Child
Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
Can a little girl…
Heal the wounds of the past?
When Faith Mast inherits her great aunt’s Amish farmhouse, she needs to sell it fast—before someone in the community discovers her daughter’s real identity. Accepting Josiah Brenneman’s help with repairs is risky but might be the perfect solution. That is, until the man she once loved and left wins the little girl’s heart. With secrets still between them, will Faith choose the future she’s always wanted…or repeat the past?
This is Faith Mast and Josiah Brenneman's story.
She could do this. She was an intelligent, thinking woman, and she’d done it zillions of times before.
Standing in the enclosed back porch of her great-aunt’s early-1900s farmhouse, Faith Mast gazed at the postwar-era washer with open hostility. The machine had a simple design, easily adapted to the rumbling diesel generator sitting outside on the wooden deck. As a devout Amish woman, Faith never used electricity. Having been raised in this house by their great-aunt and uncle, Faith and her identical twin sister, Hope, had learned to wash clothes on this device. But ever since Faith got her hand caught between the rollers and broke two fingers, she’d hated this washer so much that she’d named it der umensch.
The monster.
Of all the people in town, why did it have to be Josiah Brenneman who came to her rescue?
At the age of twenty-three, he hadn’t changed. Not one bit. Regaining her balance, she stared at his attractive face. The lean cheeks, long nose and full, perfect lips that had always smiled so easily. He still wore the hard black work boots, broadfall pants, suspenders and white shirt of a plain Amish man. But he wasn’t plain. Not in any way. Though she hadn’t seen him in four long years, she knew him so well. At one time, he’d been the man of her dreams. But not anymore. She’d moved on. They didn’t know each other now and she didn’t love him anymore. But she had undoubtedly broken his heart when she left town without saying goodbye.
If you like to read amish books you will love this book.
I recommend reading.
Her Hidden Amish Child by Leigh Bale is a wonderful well written 5 star book.
I am looking forward to reading more books by Leigh Bale .
Secret Amish Babies
Book 1: The Midwife's Christmas Wish
Book 2: Her Forbidden Amish Child
Book 3: An Amish Christmas Wish
Book 4: Her Hidden Amish Child
November 30, 2024
I have such mixed feelings about this book. It did end up hooking me. It made care about Josiah and Adel (Faith, the main character, not so much... and I really had wanted to). It made me feel true emotions, and quite an array of them. My heart leapt, ached, and raced. That's what a novel, especially a romance novel, is supposed to do. It's supposed to make you feel, it's supposed to make you root for the characters to end up together and to have a happily ever after. So it did what it was supposed to do and I can honestly say I enjoyed the story.
Yet at the same time, there were several things that made me... iffy on it overall. The questions ending almost every chapter became very frustrating, especially towards the end. It felt like it would take one step forward then two steps back at the end of a lot of the chapters. Faith felt stagnant and I really didn't think she had much growth. The story itself felt choppy, and the resolution felt sudden, if not even out of character. It began to feel repetitive about halfway through, and as the story went on a lot of words and phrases began to feel overused. These combined to take some enjoyment from the story...
But I ended up reading literally half of it in one night because I wanted to find out what happened. On top of that, I genuinely do not like kids *at all* and yet if I were to just rate little Adel's character, Goodreads would have to create a new rating system for all of the stars I would demand to give her. She was adorable and made me really glad to have read the novel regardless of how back and forth I feel about the rest of it. And Josiah, too. Honestly, he was the perfect romance love interest. Swoon!
While I feel like I can't give it more than three stars, I will say that if there were to be a sequel for this couple, I'd gladly pick it up.
Yet at the same time, there were several things that made me... iffy on it overall. The questions ending almost every chapter became very frustrating, especially towards the end. It felt like it would take one step forward then two steps back at the end of a lot of the chapters. Faith felt stagnant and I really didn't think she had much growth. The story itself felt choppy, and the resolution felt sudden, if not even out of character. It began to feel repetitive about halfway through, and as the story went on a lot of words and phrases began to feel overused. These combined to take some enjoyment from the story...
But I ended up reading literally half of it in one night because I wanted to find out what happened. On top of that, I genuinely do not like kids *at all* and yet if I were to just rate little Adel's character, Goodreads would have to create a new rating system for all of the stars I would demand to give her. She was adorable and made me really glad to have read the novel regardless of how back and forth I feel about the rest of it. And Josiah, too. Honestly, he was the perfect romance love interest. Swoon!
While I feel like I can't give it more than three stars, I will say that if there were to be a sequel for this couple, I'd gladly pick it up.
February 25, 2024
Look, there are HUNDREDS of 'Love, Inspired' Amish books out there. Literally - and I know, because I have shelves and shelves of them that I'm trying to get thru. Some are amazing. ((Read Patricia Davids - MOST of hers are phenomenal.))
This is not.
This is more of the same of the crappier ones that are out there. In fact, it's like a regurgitation of the worser examples that there are (that are now in my garage sale box).
Storyline: Twin Amish girls - one's a hellion, the other's gold - live in small community. Hellion gets knocked up, good twin leaves her true love to go with her sister to another community to have the baby and NOT be shunned. Mom and dad die. Sister dies in childbirth - puts good twin's name on the birth certificate. Granny dies, leaves house back home to good twin. She goes home and falls for same guy, all over again - because Amish wait years and years to get married (they don't).
All of this in the first 30 pages. So I skipped to page 200 and read five more. There we have true love catching her at the bus station, telling her he loves her and is going with her, this time. They share a chaste kiss. LUVVVV!!!
Wow. I read 35 pages, and got the WHOLE STORY without having to deal with the 'blah-blah-blah' in between that is absolutely time consuming and not at all of interest to the reader... because it's. so. SAME..
Please. Just... try to think about what PEOPLE want, and not what your editor wants? Cuz you're wasting our time. I'm not even sure there isn't a book with the exact same title by Patrice Lewis or Vanetta Chapman or Carrie Lighte or JoAnn Brown, etc...
Do you see what I mean?!
I just... can't give this stars.
It's tedious, and more of the same.
This is not.
This is more of the same of the crappier ones that are out there. In fact, it's like a regurgitation of the worser examples that there are (that are now in my garage sale box).
Storyline: Twin Amish girls - one's a hellion, the other's gold - live in small community. Hellion gets knocked up, good twin leaves her true love to go with her sister to another community to have the baby and NOT be shunned. Mom and dad die. Sister dies in childbirth - puts good twin's name on the birth certificate. Granny dies, leaves house back home to good twin. She goes home and falls for same guy, all over again - because Amish wait years and years to get married (they don't).
All of this in the first 30 pages. So I skipped to page 200 and read five more. There we have true love catching her at the bus station, telling her he loves her and is going with her, this time. They share a chaste kiss. LUVVVV!!!
Wow. I read 35 pages, and got the WHOLE STORY without having to deal with the 'blah-blah-blah' in between that is absolutely time consuming and not at all of interest to the reader... because it's. so. SAME..
Please. Just... try to think about what PEOPLE want, and not what your editor wants? Cuz you're wasting our time. I'm not even sure there isn't a book with the exact same title by Patrice Lewis or Vanetta Chapman or Carrie Lighte or JoAnn Brown, etc...
Do you see what I mean?!
I just... can't give this stars.
It's tedious, and more of the same.
September 22, 2023
I really enjoyed this book about Faith Mast inheriting her aunt's home in Colorado and returning there to get the home ready to sell. She needs to sell it fast so someone doesn't figure out the secret about her daughter. Accepting Josiah Brennamen's help with repairs is risky but it may be the perfect solution. That is until he wins her little girls heart. With secrets between them will Faith choose the l8fe she always wanted or repeat past mistakes. This is a 5 star book.
December 24, 2024
Faith has inherited her great aunts farm house. She wants to fix it up and sell it, she has her little girl with her. Josiah loved her before she moved away and still does. He helps her fix up the place. Things are not they seem. This story has a few twists and turns in it. Though as usual GOD is always in control.
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September 13, 2024
Such an emotional story
This was such a lovely story about trust emotion and protectiveness. I recommend this story esp if u love children.
This was such a lovely story about trust emotion and protectiveness. I recommend this story esp if u love children.
October 14, 2024
Sweet love story.
I always enjoy Leigh Bale’s book. This is a sweet love story. Faith and Josiah found love after being separated for four years.
I always enjoy Leigh Bale’s book. This is a sweet love story. Faith and Josiah found love after being separated for four years.
October 17, 2024
Great story
May 15, 2025
very ngood book very good series
August 25, 2023
Loved reading this book
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