The Nanny's Amish Family

Redemption’s Amish Legacies #1

by Patricia Johns

They need her help. She needs them …

An Amish bachelor. A motherless child.

Can she turn them into a real family?

Schoolteacher Patience Flaud longs for a family of her own—but knows it can never happen. At least she can help Amish bachelor Thomas Wiebe with his small Englisher daughter. As she settles the child into Amish life, Patience begins falling for the bewildered new father and his heartbroken little girl. But is love enough to make them a permanent family?

Love Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.

Discover more uplifting romances in the Redemption's Amish Legacies miniseries!
Book 1: The Nanny's Amish Family
Book 2: A Precious Christmas Gift
Book 3: Wife on His Doorstep
Book 4: Snowbound with the Amish Bachelor
Book 5: Blended Amish Blessings

Genres: Amish, Romance, Amish Fiction, Love Inspired

368 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2020

About the author

Publishers Weekly bestselling author Patricia Johns writes sweet romance. She lives in Alberta, Canada with her husband and son.

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Reviews

[Metalkarin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Living a plain life isn’t simple

This story tugged at my heartstrings from the very first page. One Amish man who regrets his past, one woman who doesn’t think a family is in her future and an Englisher girl who’d lost her mom. Three very different people, all struggling with their own insecurities and what life throws at them.

The Nanny’s Amish Family is a well written story full of faith, love and hope. And I couldn’t put it down.
The characters are lovable. The have their flaws but they learn and grow and own up to their mistakes. Besides, there are no such things as mistakes, only valuable lessons and happy accidents.

Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Characters: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Flow: 👍👍👍👍👍
Editing and writing: 🖋🖋🖋🖋🖋
Steam: none

Disclaimer: I’m leaving a voluntary review and this is my honest opinion. I’m in no way, shape or form coerced, influenced, or paid to leave this review.
I’m not related nor friends with this author and I do not have a personal interest in this book.
I signed up to receive an ARC.

[Marilyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Nanny’s Amish Family will tug on your heartstrings as well as remind readers what you sow you will reap. Thomas Wiebe’s life hadn’t been easy during his teen years but he was committed to his Amish lifestyle. A social worker bringing his Englisher daughter to him presented new challenges. Asking Patricia Flaud to assist with her care in a household of all men beside of his elderly Mammi presented a solution. The pain of the past had to be confronted and learning to forgive as God instructed had to found. I appreciated the insight Patricia’s host family gave her on love and marriage. A sweet and quick read found in this LI Amish fiction.

[Pamela Pavkov · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Nanny's Amish Family is a wonderful story written by Patricia Johns in her Redemption's Amish Legacies series. This first book is an amazing story to start out a new series. The characters are very likeable and realistic. The author has done an outstanding job telling her story thru her characters. I enjoyed the storyline very much.

Patience has come to Redemption to be a school teacher. After being devastated because of a failed attempt at marriage because she is unable to have children. She lets being a teacher be her focus to avoid heartbreak again. When Patience is asked to help an Amish man bring his English daughter into accepting her new life she finds herself falling in love with Thomas. When she explains to him why they couldn't be more than friends they try to ignore their feelings. The tension of raising an English girl in an Amish family brings many difficulties but Patience is up for the job and always positive about it even knowing there will be nothing between her and Thomas. Will Patience and Thomas be able to get little Rue to adjust? What does this mean for Patience and Thomas. This story is so full of emtions and really tugs at the heartstrings. Forgiveness is always good but will Thomas receive that for his transgressions from his Amish community?

I was not given a complimentary copy of this book to read and review. I was not approached to post a favorable response. All opinions are my own. 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 Patricia Johns for writing another truly inspiring story for her readers enjoyed that involves love, faith, forgiveness, and especially family.

[Excel Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Nanny’s Amish Family by Patricia Jones is a Christian fiction Amish romance.

The book cover is so attractive.


I am so glad to read another Amish tale from my new favourite author, Patricia Johns.


Such a sweet novel. I love Rue so much. I fell in love with her personality and her sweet kind heart. I share her love for that ratty rooster. I have a little chick like that. I already told my family not to ever kill that brownish red little chick. So I totally understand her love for the rooster, Toby.


Patience and Thomas are two awesome characters. I really felt for them. I got emotional at a chapter over their love declarations.


I read this novel in one sitting. This is a book I would love to read over and again. I wish I can rate this book 50 stars. Such a beautiful story with touches of reality in it. I could empathize on a human level with the book characters.


Patricia Johns,you have won a place in my book heart for writing sweet,cozy,and emotional stories.


I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author. Opinions expressed in this review are mine.

[Julie Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a wonderful story! I fell in love with Rue, Thomas and Patient right away. It's an emotional book, crying, sad, mad and of course love. This is a great start to a series. You did an excellent job Patricia Johns.

[Tambra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book, great story, great characters, Could not put this book down.

[Gaylina · Rating 5 out of 5]

As I was reading this book, it occurred to me how very different it is for the adjustment a small child has to make when losing a parent in death or divorce. I’ve been through this with friends that have grandchildren that are so confused and rebellious. The author did a great job of describing this heartache. Then add a bunch of cruel gossip and speculation and you have tender feelings that are rubbed raw because of accusations and cruel teasing and criticism from people who just don’t get it. I enjoyed the honesty in this book. And a reminder that we serve an awesome God! Our identity is in Christ, not in others opinions of us. We love, we forgive and we live to bring Him glory!

[Angela (Kentuckybooklover) Brocato-Skaggs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Families are made with love

An orphaned little English girl comes to live with her Thomas, Amish dad and shows a whole community what unconditional love is made of. It takes an Amish schoolteacher to open the heart of the Amish dad and help him see what families are made of.

My heart hurt a lot while reading this book. After recently losing my dad I felt for Rue. Sometimes you just want to act out because you don’t know how to release that grief.

I have not looked further into the series but I’m hoping there is a book on Noah the brother of Thomas.

[Amanda Hash · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an absolutely heartwarming, beautiful book. I love Amish fiction because the simple ways and plain appearance of the people are a stark contrast to the profound depth of their faith and of their love, and this story was no exception.

Examining what is truly important in a family and reinforcing the belief that God's plan is a perfect one, Johns has crafted a sweet and sincere tale of forgiveness, acceptance, and love. This is an easy (but emotional!) read that will appeal to fans of Amish fiction, obviously, but also to any reader who loves sweet romance or befuddled single dads (as well as any reader who has spent time around children, or has ever thought that maybe-- just maybe-- a mean rooster just needed a hug. And here I thought I was the only one who ever believed that as a child!!)

[Annette Rene · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a truly amazing story of an imperfect Amish family. We all have in our minds what an Amish family is. This book takes a look at an non traditional Amish family. It reminds us that what we do today may have consequences. Thomas finds this out first hand when his English daughter from his wild rumspringa comes to live with him. He needs all the help he can get and enlists the help of the new school teacher (Patience) to help his daughter adjust. While Thomas and Patience help his daughter to adjust sparks begin to fly. Patience has a secret of her own though and can’t have children. Can Patience and Thomas resist the draw to each other for the benefit of his daughter?

[Melissa T · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received a copy of this book from the author. Thank you!

This book is amazing! Patricias’ books never disappoint.
This is a book set in the Amish community, with a non typical family setting. I fell in love with Thomas, Patience and Rue. Thomas was a single father that had to try to raise a daughter born out of the Amish community. Patience was hired to be a school teacher and helped Thomas out with Rue.
Rue is such a sweet little girl, she reminds me of the preschoolers I work with.

Excellent Read, I could not put it down!

[Amber Hash · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received this book from the author, thank you!

This was a quick read for me, I finished it within a few hours! This was my first read by her and most certainly won’t be the last!

This book tugged on my heartstrings and I absolutely loved the character Rue! I loved this book and look forward to reading more

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book that will tug on your heartstrings. It is full of emotions and will keep you turning the pages to see what happens next. I feel in love with little Rue, she is such a sweet little girl. I highly recommend this book. It was an outstanding read that I read in one setting. Loved it! I received an ARC copy and was not required to write a review. All opinions expressed are my own.

[Karen Mcnicol · Rating 5 out of 5]

Patricia Johns does it again. As soon as I started reading her new book I felt at home, like I knew the characters already. I especially loved the way Rue loved Toby the rooster "he's family daddy and we don't eat family". This book will make you fall in love with love again, I hated to finish it!

I give this book 10 stars!!

[Kaye Wingo · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a book everyone needs to read. Fantastic

[Joyce · Rating 5 out of 5]

a really sweet story of a teacher

[Jean Thurmond · Rating 5 out of 5]

Know the feeling of wanting a family and need that you belong and wanted. This story move me. A fathers struggle with his past. And a woman with her present. And a child makes a difference.

[Sylvia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book!! Great story!! Read a few books by this author will read more of her books!!

[Brenda Day · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great story

Great characters and story line. I’ve cried and laughed I like the way the story let’s the characters work through there problems.

[Anna Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two and a half stars.

Every. Single. Drama. Point that Love Inspired has *EVER* come up with? That's this book. It's astonishing that Johns was able to cram that much into a slender novel. Must be why there's absolutely no character development, no descriptive writing, and barely a plot.

Okay. So Thomas and Noah's dad died ten years ago, and their mother tells them they weren't born Amish, they were Mennonite TURNED Amish, and she wants to go back to being Mennonite, because she misses her sister and music and literature and art and LIFE. Cool... but she never would've gone Amish to begin with, because there is *NOTHING* to be gained by it. More, Mennonites and Amish can associate with each other, so there's no reason for her to have been estranged.

Johns also seems to have difficulty realizing that Mennonite and English are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. It's confusing as hell to the people who haven't read Patricia Davids, Emma Miller, or the other *BETTER* Amish-story writers.

Anyhow, the two boys remained Amish and live with a man and his grandmother that are NOT related to them, so THAT gets confusing as heck, too. Noah rejected his mother completely. Thomas left on 'rumspringa' to live with his mother as an Englischer (wouldn't that be Mennonite?!), but she was apparently not interested in him (!?!?!), so he sought love with Tina, a TOTALLY English girl raised in a foster system. NO. HE. WOULDN'T Someone like that is FAR to big a departure. This is all preposterous.

He also knocks Tina up, leaves her pregnant, and goes back to the Amish. Um... really? NO, he wouldn't If she's the hot mess we're told she is? He'd've been able to easily get the baby from the court system. And he would've had SERIOUS issues with the child being raised Englisch.

Now Tina's dead (of course) and the four year old child is being dropped off to Thomas in AmishWorld, and she's grieving and does NOT want to assimilate.

Enter Patience, the not-really-but-gonna-be schoolteacher ((hrmph)) who has offered to help transitition the little girl. THAT'S NOT A NANNY The whole book title/premise is fake/a lie. A nanny is a paid employee who takes care of a child in lieu of the parent. Thomas is there THE WHOLE TIME, doesn't pay Patience, and is taking care of the child WITH her.

((((((((SIGH.))))))))

How is it that 'Wiebe' - a GERMAN name isn't 'normal' for Amish, but 'Smoker' is?!

But then it gets more complicated than that. Thomas' mother has decided to come BACK to the Amish, because TEN YEARS LATER she misses her sons. (!!!!) WHO WRITES THIS GARBAGE!?!!

And apparently the Amish are perfectly fine with the Mennonite-no-Amish-no-Mennonite-no-Amish grandmother of the half-English-hate-Amish little girl that they're shoving in the faces of everyone around them.

Meanwhile, Thomas is falling in love with Patience, because she's the only onliest one who will completely accept this MESS. Why? Because she luvvvvvvs children, and had 30 tumors or something in her uterus that left her unable to have children, OF COURSE!!! And she could never have Thomas, because the spoiled brat Englischer kid needs brothers and sisters to help her assimilate, since the Amish children want nothing to do with her demands for TV and Disney Princesses.

I. Can't. Even.
There are SOAP OPERAS written better than this!

I only liked it because it was a terrific train-wreck, and some of those are THE most entertaining to watch. Seriously. At least there weren't spelling/grammar errors. The bar is low with 'Love Inspired', as it is. I guess I should count blessings, hm?

[Kati · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Nanny's Amish Family is the first book in the Redemption's Amish Legacy series.

Two things I liked about this story.

First, the story is centered around a little girl who has lost her Englisher mother and now meets her Amish father for the first time. I liked that the storyline does not shift the focus off of little Rue, but continues with her in the center throughout Patience and Thomas's growing relationship and the sudden reappearance of Thomas's ex-Amish mother.

Second, the conclusion of the story: Thomas realizes that in order for her daughter to have a meaningful life, he does not need to offer her a perfect Amish family. "Perhaps his daughter needed to see their family just as it was, complete with imperfections, hurts, hopes, and devotion." Theirs may not look like a traditional, highly sought-after Amish family situation, but God does not make mistakes. Patience who cannot have children, will still have a family of her own "maybe not the most traditional in appearance, but purposefully pieced together by Gott's own hand. And when Gott brought a family together, let no man put it asunder."

One more thing, I do think the title should have been The Teacher's Amish Family. Patience is the new school teacher in the community; nobody, including herself, sees her as a nanny.

This is a sweet, clean read with a valuable message.

[Tammy Moldovan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful story of love and loss and finding direction in a Godly life

Oh this book - phew. It’s one that grabs you by the throat and does not let go of your heart until the final sentence. This is the story of Patience, an Amish woman who cannot have children who’s trying to dedicate her life to service despite her sadness. Thomas an Amish man who had a rebellious rumspringa that resulted in a child he has not seen and who’s been living godly life since. And Rue the 4 year old Englisher child whose mother has died and she is now living with an Amish father she had never met. The feelings for all of the MCs were palpable as their worlds collide and they try to fit the pieces together and make sense of the upheaval and find a god directed path forward. This was a beautiful story of love and loss and finding direction in a godly life.

[Jackalyn]

Good Amish fiction. Shows some Amish as being very self-righteous, judgmental and not wanting to associate with "outsiders" for fear they will be contaminated. The brunt of all this judgmental attitude is a four-year old child who has just lost her mother.

The title is a bit confusing, since the story not about a nanny, but rather about the new school teacher. The story seems to indicate that women who are unable to bear children are considered quite worthless and to be pitied; that if a women cannot bear a large number of children she has no worth at all.

[Betty · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this story

I loved this story from start to finish! It keeps you guessing and is well written ! This is the kind of true love God intends ..This Author was new to me but now she is my favorite Author, I have read many of her books in last weeks. I love a long read . I do not think anyone will be sorry that reads this story.

[Michelle D Compton · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an uplifting story!!?

I love the characters in this book and the down home Christian values and the lesson that despite our flaws and history that help us learn and grow as God's children all we really need is the love and acceptance of family and friends and to know our God's love for us and all will be well.

[Annie · Rating 2 out of 5]

The lack of compassion for a grieving child was astounding. Yet the women were not called out for their unChristian behaviour. It was baffling that the social worker just dropped off the child and washed her hands. Clearly her mental health wasn't considered.
I found myself fuming for most of the story.

[David L. Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

When reading Amish romances, the end is almost always predictable and this book was not much different. I read these because they are uplifting and feel-good. I found this read very much to my liking and the good in people was revealed tactfully without having the reader absolutely certain what the characters would do. A great feel-good human interest read!

[Dorel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the 2nd book I read by Patricia Johns. I loved ❤ the book's storyline. I loved ❤ the Christian theme in this story. I loved ❤ Patience's character. I loved ❤ Thomas's character. I loved ❤ Rue. My heart broke 💔 for Rue. I loved ❤ the ending. Awesome job. Ms. Johns.

[Leann Sebring · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Read!

It was a hard book to put down and read through it in just a few hours. Can't wait to read more of Patricia Johns' other love inspired books in this series! Definitely recommend!

[Shayne Archer · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Nanny's Amish Family

The Nanny's Amish Family by Patricia Johns is a surprisingly different look at both Amish and English families. I love how it shows that God truly can redeem and bring families together.