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Amish Country Courtships #4
Her New Amish Family
Neighbors who are worlds apart…
Opposites attract in Amish Country Courtships
Widower Seth Helmuth needs a mother for his sons, but for now, hiring the Englischer next door as their nanny will have to do. Trina Smith plans to stay in Amish country only long enough to claim her inheritance and sell her grandfather’s house. But as she falls for Seth, his twin boys and Amish life, will she inherit a home and a family?
Opposites attract in Amish Country Courtships
Widower Seth Helmuth needs a mother for his sons, but for now, hiring the Englischer next door as their nanny will have to do. Trina Smith plans to stay in Amish country only long enough to claim her inheritance and sell her grandfather’s house. But as she falls for Seth, his twin boys and Amish life, will she inherit a home and a family?
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Published April 16, 2019
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May 16, 2019
Her New Amish Family is a wonderful story written by Carrie Lighte. The storyline is remarkable and I enjoyed it. The author has done an amazing job telling this story. The author has a very creative writing style.
The characters are very likeable and well developed. I enjoyed the character of Trina and learning her story. She is a great mixture of English and Amish. Her life was anything but easy but it has made her strong in her faith. Seth is a wonderful Amish man who is a widower and father of very active twin sons with great imagination. I really enjoyed the way this story played out.
I was not given a complimentary copy of this book to read and review. I was not approached by anyone to post a favorable review. I have rated this story with five stars for meeting my expectations of a wonderful story that I can highly recommend to others.
Congratulations to Carrie Lighte on writing another fantastic story for her readers to enjoy. I look forward to more amazing stories from this author in the future.
The characters are very likeable and well developed. I enjoyed the character of Trina and learning her story. She is a great mixture of English and Amish. Her life was anything but easy but it has made her strong in her faith. Seth is a wonderful Amish man who is a widower and father of very active twin sons with great imagination. I really enjoyed the way this story played out.
I was not given a complimentary copy of this book to read and review. I was not approached by anyone to post a favorable review. I have rated this story with five stars for meeting my expectations of a wonderful story that I can highly recommend to others.
Congratulations to Carrie Lighte on writing another fantastic story for her readers to enjoy. I look forward to more amazing stories from this author in the future.
April 30, 2019
Her New Amish Family by Carrie Lighte
(Amish Country Courtships, Book 5)
Neighbors who are worlds apart…Opposites attract in Amish Country Courtships.
Widower Seth Helmuth needs a mother for his sons, but for now, hiring the Englischer next door as their nanny will have to do. Trina Smith plans to stay in Amish country only long enough to claim her inheritance and sell her grandfather's house. But as she falls for Seth, his twin boys and Amish life, will she inherit a home and a family?
This is Trina Smith and Seth Helmuth's story.
Trina Smith expected to find a gas stove in the little Amish house, but the refrigerator surprised her. She hadn’t considered a fridge could be powered by gas, too. Not that she had much use for either appliance; Trina lost her appetite when her mother, Patience, died six months ago of leukemia. When Trina did eat, it was only to nibble a piece of toast or an apple, and even then she had to force herself to swallow. Just like she had to force herself to go to bed at night and then to rise in the morning. She was going through the motions because nothing seemed to come naturally anymore.
She set her suitcase down on the floor of the tiny kitchen. Although no one else was in the house, she tiptoed into the parlor. From the dark braided rug to the gas lamp to the sparse furniture, the room was exactly as her mother had described, right down to the ticktock of the clock on the wall.
“As loudly as that clock marked off the seconds, I felt like time was standing still,” her mother once said. “I think it was the clock that made me realize nothing would ever change unless I changed it for myself.”
Trina shouted, “Ack!” a second time. Whirling around, she saw a short, plump, white-haired woman wearing glasses and traditional Amish attire.
“I’m Martha Helmuth. I live next door. You must be Trina?”
“Kumme, Timothy and Tanner. Let’s go next door to see if Groossmammi is there. On your feet, not on your bellies.”
The four-year-old twins were as imaginative as they were energetic, and they reveled in pretending to be various animals. Today they were acting like snakes, and they’d spent the afternoon trying to slither on their stomachs on the banks by the creek.
“Your boots are too dirty to go indoors, so you may play in the front yard. Stay where I can see you,” Seth instructed after they crossed their yard to the only house located within half a mile of them. He bounded up the porch stairs, pulled the door open and, before his eyes adjusted to the light, questioned the figure in the kitchen, “Groossmammi?”
But it was a young woman who turned from the stove with a teakettle in her hand. Her long dark hair was drawn up in a ponytail, accentuating the sharp angles of her face. Seth knew the Englisch considered thinness attractive, but this young woman was so spindly she appeared fragile. Dark eyebrows framed her big, upturned green eyes and her lips were parted as if she were about to speak, but she didn’t say a word.
“I’m sorry if I scared you,” he said, feeling self-conscious for entering her home uninvited. “My name is Seth Helmuth and I wondered if my groossmammi—my grandmother—is here?”
I highly recommend reading.
Her New Amish Family by Carrie Lighte is a wonderful well written 5 star book.
I am looking forward to reading more books by Carrie Lighte.
Amish Country Courtship Series
Her New Amish Family
Minding the Amish Baby
An Amish Holiday Wedding
Anna's Forgotten Fiancé
Amish Triplets for Christmas
(Amish Country Courtships, Book 5)
Neighbors who are worlds apart…Opposites attract in Amish Country Courtships.
Widower Seth Helmuth needs a mother for his sons, but for now, hiring the Englischer next door as their nanny will have to do. Trina Smith plans to stay in Amish country only long enough to claim her inheritance and sell her grandfather's house. But as she falls for Seth, his twin boys and Amish life, will she inherit a home and a family?
This is Trina Smith and Seth Helmuth's story.
Trina Smith expected to find a gas stove in the little Amish house, but the refrigerator surprised her. She hadn’t considered a fridge could be powered by gas, too. Not that she had much use for either appliance; Trina lost her appetite when her mother, Patience, died six months ago of leukemia. When Trina did eat, it was only to nibble a piece of toast or an apple, and even then she had to force herself to swallow. Just like she had to force herself to go to bed at night and then to rise in the morning. She was going through the motions because nothing seemed to come naturally anymore.
She set her suitcase down on the floor of the tiny kitchen. Although no one else was in the house, she tiptoed into the parlor. From the dark braided rug to the gas lamp to the sparse furniture, the room was exactly as her mother had described, right down to the ticktock of the clock on the wall.
“As loudly as that clock marked off the seconds, I felt like time was standing still,” her mother once said. “I think it was the clock that made me realize nothing would ever change unless I changed it for myself.”
Trina shouted, “Ack!” a second time. Whirling around, she saw a short, plump, white-haired woman wearing glasses and traditional Amish attire.
“I’m Martha Helmuth. I live next door. You must be Trina?”
“Kumme, Timothy and Tanner. Let’s go next door to see if Groossmammi is there. On your feet, not on your bellies.”
The four-year-old twins were as imaginative as they were energetic, and they reveled in pretending to be various animals. Today they were acting like snakes, and they’d spent the afternoon trying to slither on their stomachs on the banks by the creek.
“Your boots are too dirty to go indoors, so you may play in the front yard. Stay where I can see you,” Seth instructed after they crossed their yard to the only house located within half a mile of them. He bounded up the porch stairs, pulled the door open and, before his eyes adjusted to the light, questioned the figure in the kitchen, “Groossmammi?”
But it was a young woman who turned from the stove with a teakettle in her hand. Her long dark hair was drawn up in a ponytail, accentuating the sharp angles of her face. Seth knew the Englisch considered thinness attractive, but this young woman was so spindly she appeared fragile. Dark eyebrows framed her big, upturned green eyes and her lips were parted as if she were about to speak, but she didn’t say a word.
“I’m sorry if I scared you,” he said, feeling self-conscious for entering her home uninvited. “My name is Seth Helmuth and I wondered if my groossmammi—my grandmother—is here?”
I highly recommend reading.
Her New Amish Family by Carrie Lighte is a wonderful well written 5 star book.
I am looking forward to reading more books by Carrie Lighte.
Amish Country Courtship Series
Her New Amish Family
Minding the Amish Baby
An Amish Holiday Wedding
Anna's Forgotten Fiancé
Amish Triplets for Christmas
January 5, 2022
Me: Ironically reads Amish Christian fiction because I'm curious and don't have any hopes of it being good
Also me: Rates it 5 stars, unironically loves every moment of reading it and cries at the end
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Also me: Rates it 5 stars, unironically loves every moment of reading it and cries at the end
🤙
April 5, 2022
Holy cow, this is another FANTASTIC read from Carrie Lighte.
Trina's mother was Amish, but her father's alcoholism and abusive neglect drove her to become Englisch and raise her daughter among the Christians, not the Amish. But now that both her mother and her grandfather are dead, Trina finds herself alone and with her grandfather's house in Willow Creek, an Amish community.
She can sell the house, but the stipulation is that she must live in it two months before it's hers... otherwise, it reverts to the Amish community, there. So she moves to Willow Creek, finds herself acting as nanny to the neighbor boys while they're widowed dad goes courting to find them a new mother... and of course they fall in love.
Except he HATES the Englisch (one 'stole' his brother from the faith). And she doesn't care for the Amish - her alcoholic grandfather drove her mother away to live in poverty and squalor, working three jobs to make ends meet, and contributed to her failing health. So they bait each other. A lot. And it's kind of crazy and fun, at the same time as being serious... and a little like foreplay.
Throw in rambunctious little boys, a half-blind grossmammi, a potential wife drummed up by the local matchmaker, and a pediatrician, and things get even crazier.
I... loved this book, but at this point, I have to ask WHY the majority of male characters in this series all have English last names as first names. We had Fletcher and Hunter and Tanner and Turner... what the heck?! I don't know that Amish would do that. Unless it irony on Carrie Lighte's part?
Also, I didn't much care for Ethan's behavior. An engaged man repeatedly asking a single young woman at his church if he could drive her home? It felt cheat-ish (as in, on his fiancée) for him to be doing that. I half expected Ethan to buy the house with his fiancée, but that didn't happen, so... it was awkward.
Additionally, why was it okay for her grandfather to keep photos of her, but she couldn't keep a photo of her mother? Seems like a double standard, there.
And if Trina felt that rejecting electricity, dressing up Amish, and separating from other believers of the Word was 'the best way to live out her faith'? OBVIOUSLY she had a very false faith. Scripture says "judge not as to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment'. That alone puts the Amish way in contradiction to Scripture, not to mention 'Be you not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed... BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND' - not by the sect you test into, the electricity you shun, the bread you bake from scratch.
Nevermind me, I have Amish *ISSUES*... but having said, I'm still on the lookout for this book, to add it to my collection. It was wunderbaar.
Trina's mother was Amish, but her father's alcoholism and abusive neglect drove her to become Englisch and raise her daughter among the Christians, not the Amish. But now that both her mother and her grandfather are dead, Trina finds herself alone and with her grandfather's house in Willow Creek, an Amish community.
She can sell the house, but the stipulation is that she must live in it two months before it's hers... otherwise, it reverts to the Amish community, there. So she moves to Willow Creek, finds herself acting as nanny to the neighbor boys while they're widowed dad goes courting to find them a new mother... and of course they fall in love.
Except he HATES the Englisch (one 'stole' his brother from the faith). And she doesn't care for the Amish - her alcoholic grandfather drove her mother away to live in poverty and squalor, working three jobs to make ends meet, and contributed to her failing health. So they bait each other. A lot. And it's kind of crazy and fun, at the same time as being serious... and a little like foreplay.
Throw in rambunctious little boys, a half-blind grossmammi, a potential wife drummed up by the local matchmaker, and a pediatrician, and things get even crazier.
I... loved this book, but at this point, I have to ask WHY the majority of male characters in this series all have English last names as first names. We had Fletcher and Hunter and Tanner and Turner... what the heck?! I don't know that Amish would do that. Unless it irony on Carrie Lighte's part?
Also, I didn't much care for Ethan's behavior. An engaged man repeatedly asking a single young woman at his church if he could drive her home? It felt cheat-ish (as in, on his fiancée) for him to be doing that. I half expected Ethan to buy the house with his fiancée, but that didn't happen, so... it was awkward.
Additionally, why was it okay for her grandfather to keep photos of her, but she couldn't keep a photo of her mother? Seems like a double standard, there.
And if Trina felt that rejecting electricity, dressing up Amish, and separating from other believers of the Word was 'the best way to live out her faith'? OBVIOUSLY she had a very false faith. Scripture says "judge not as to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment'. That alone puts the Amish way in contradiction to Scripture, not to mention 'Be you not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed... BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND' - not by the sect you test into, the electricity you shun, the bread you bake from scratch.
Nevermind me, I have Amish *ISSUES*... but having said, I'm still on the lookout for this book, to add it to my collection. It was wunderbaar.
October 14, 2024
Trina Smith moves to Amish country after the death of her mom and grandfather. He has left his home to Trina but there is a stipulation. In order to inherit the home she must live in the home for a specific time. Her next door neighbor Seth Helmuth is a widower with twin sons. He offers Trina the job to be their nanny until she plans to sell the home after the 60 days that is required to own the home. Trina accepts the job but quickly begins to see her life going down a different path. Will she be able to sell the home and leave Seth and the twins behind?
This story was well written with the characters seemingly coming to life. Carrie Lighte has a way with her words. I have several of her books and will be looking for more. I rate this story a 5 star.
This story was well written with the characters seemingly coming to life. Carrie Lighte has a way with her words. I have several of her books and will be looking for more. I rate this story a 5 star.
August 27, 2023
"Her New Amish Family" by Carrie Lighte. Trina inherits her mother's childhood home from her late grandfather. Trina learns why her mother left and why her childhood was so tough. The stipulation is she has to live in the home for two months before she can sell. Her mother had recently passed away and she had lost her job, so this was a time for her to use this home as a way to start over and return to Philadelphia after selling. Her Amish neighbors are friendly and she strikes up a friendship with them.
July 14, 2019
I found this book in the free bin at Second and Charles and snatched it up.
It was a sweet and nice read about two worlds colliding. Though this is a pretty common plot in many Amish books Ms. Lighte put a nice spin on it. The main characters, Seth and Trina were well developed. My favorite characters were the twins.
Overall it was a really nice read and I'm glad to find this writer. I look forward to reading more of her books!
It was a sweet and nice read about two worlds colliding. Though this is a pretty common plot in many Amish books Ms. Lighte put a nice spin on it. The main characters, Seth and Trina were well developed. My favorite characters were the twins.
Overall it was a really nice read and I'm glad to find this writer. I look forward to reading more of her books!
June 23, 2019
Definately made me wonder what the amish really thought of the english. as well as reminded me how great ones values are and how you should hold close to them. The bickering of the two really didn't set well. I know it was needed to set the tone, but for a christian book, that much conflict was unsettling.
September 28, 2025
very good book
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May 1, 2019Categories:
Inspirational Romance, Amish & Mennonite, Contemporary Romance, Wholesome Romance
Miniseries:
Amish Country Courtships
Inspirational Romance, Amish & Mennonite, Contemporary Romance, Wholesome Romance
Miniseries:
Amish Country Courtships
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May 1, 2019Categories:
Inspirational Romance, Amish & Mennonite, Contemporary Romance, Wholesome Romance
Miniseries:
Amish Country Courtships
Inspirational Romance, Amish & Mennonite, Contemporary Romance, Wholesome Romance
Miniseries:
Amish Country Courtships
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