In Time For An Amish Christmas

Amish Christmas #1

by Samantha Price

Miracles happen at Christmas!
Suspend what you think is real and come on an Amish journey with Heidi.


Heidi King was one woman who needed a miracle. She left the Amish community years ago and built a life for herself as a successful New York City realtor.


Loneliness and regret cause her to cry out to God. Heidi wakes the next morning to the life she would've had if she'd stayed in the Amish community and married Derek, her old Amish love.


At first, she was delighted to be Derek's wife and mother to their three children, but soon motherhood and the realities of life in the Amish community overwhelm her.
Heidi finds her way back to her city life and her single status.


Now with no children and no Derek, will she realize she's made the biggest mistake of her life?


Will Heidi be able to find her way back in time for an Amish Christmas?

Genres: Amish, Christmas, Romance, Christian Fiction, Contemporary

320 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 8, 2017

About the author

Samantha Price is a USA Today bestselling author of Amish romance and cozy mysteries. Raised in the Brethren faith, she writes with a heartfelt understanding of the Amish way of life.
When she’s not writing, Samantha enjoys quiet moments at home with her rescue cat and her fluffy white dog, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Snowy from the Ettie Smith Amish Mysteries.

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Reviews

[Jennie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very different book written by Samantha Price. Heidi is not sure that she wants to remain Amish even though she has a boyfriend named Derek and a loving family. She has always wanted to become a model and decides to leave the community for New York. There is a turning point in her life when she gets on the bus to leave for New York. Her parents disown her even though some Amish families welcome their children back for visits after they left the community. Heidi is very successful and does not become a model but becomes a top selling real estate agent. She has everything that money can buy except for a family. She has been given her grandmothers diary and she loves to read about her adventures. One night when she is reading the diary she falls asleep and the next day she is back in the Amish community. She finds herself married to Derek with three children. This is overwhelming for her and she tries to find a way to get back to New York. The book switches back-and-forth and finally she makes her decision as to what she wants to do.

[Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Something different

I have never read an Amish book quote like this one. How do you mix scifi & Amish-ness? Well, you should consider reading this to find out.

Without adding spoilers, I can tell you that the events seem to involve a diary written by the protagonist's grandmother. The grandmother was sent on a trip to visit several friends & relatives when she was 20, because she was "spoiled," having no skills at cooking or household management. The truth was, she was a premie, & her health was fragile at the time & for a good while after, so she wasn't taught, nor did her mother & older sisters allow her to try. The trip became an opportunity for her to prove them wrong. She learned very quickly how to manage.

At the time the protagonist os reading this, she is a long way from her roots. An inadvertent trip or dream, it's hard to say which, interrupts her life twice. She is not sire which life she likes more, the dream or alternate life or the one she's in.

At some point she makes a decision & enters the life she wanted. She gets a second chance.

Like I said, it is an unusual book that could make anyone of any age think. I believe it is well worth reading.

[Rita Dail · Rating 3 out of 5]

Confusing Read

This book was an easy an interesting read but was a little confusing with Heidi going back and forth between two different worlds. Also, the journal she was reading of her grandma in italics could have been better left out of the book.

[Amanda Siders · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my favorite

Samantha Price is one of my favorite Amish book authors. I wasn't a huge fan of this book. I glossed over a lot of it. I liked the premise, but it was Sligh confusing at first. It has potential, but overall it isn't one of my favorites.

[Mayda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heidi left her Amish community and her boyfriend years ago to be a model. Alas, she was too short! So she became a very successful real estate agent. But her life felt empty. Reading her grandmother’s journal and falling asleep, she had a very vivid dream. Or did it real happen? She was again Amish, married, with three kids. But she missed her English life even while she reveled in her married, Amish life. So back she goes, in the same manner as before. But she again feels like something - or someone - is missing from her life. What to do? If this sounds a bit like Nicholas Cage’s movie, “The Family Man,” you wouldn’t be wrong. It’s an interesting concept. The characters in this story are likable and well written, and the story is quite entertaining. If you could alter a major decision in your life that would change everything in your life now, would you want to? Unlike Heidi, in real life, there is no going back. Maybe that’s what makes this fiction tale so delightful.

[Jenny Propst · Rating 5 out of 5]

A unique Amish story

I really enjoyed this story. It's a different kind of Amish story which made it a unique and refreshing read. At first I wasn't sure if I was going to like it but kept reading then I couldn't put it down. It left me looking back at some of the choices I made wondering if I could go back and choose differently how would my life be different? I recommend this book.

I was given this ARC to review giving my honest opinion.

[Cindy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story was a great read! Samantha done well with this beautiful Christmas story.
Could you imagine being in Heidi's shoes? What would you do if your life changed after you went to sleep one night, then woke up as a completely different person & life? The craziness, alone, would get to me. Lol
Could you imagine trying to explain a situation such as this?
This story is very exciting and full of love! A great Christmas story for the season!!
Grab your copy today.

[June · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is definitely an original story, like all of her wonderful books! Each of Samantha Price's books is so different and enjoyable! I haven't stopped reading them - I yearn for the next story each time I reach the end of her books. I found this one extra-special. (I received a review copy of this book.)

[Sharon Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Time travel

Heidi owns a realtors company in new York very successful. She reads her grandmother's diary and goes back to the amish life she would have had if she hadn't left. Very good characters good story line. Good ending

[Lauren Latour · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderfully different!

I have never read another Amish story like this one and really enjoyed it.. I have often said I wonder what my life would be like if only.......
Happy reading everyone!

[Marika · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amish time travel

This is a wonderful Christmas story. So hard to put it down. I kept reading and reading. Loved every moment of this story. Our heroines learned the true meaning of life and love. You will have to read it to find out why there One heroine.

[Denise Troutman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sweet story that kept me intrigued until the end.

[Nancy Loubier · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book...it was easy reading.

[Carol Greenwood]

Time travel

An intriguing tale that was frustrating to me because the recipes aren't indexed so you can find them. I wish the author would fix that problem.

[Shelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute story about a woman who discovers what her life might be like had she chosen an alternate path for her life. Did she take the path of realtor in NYC or the path of mom in an Amish community?

[Lottie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting story, that shows you need to be careful what you wish for.

[Sherrice Mojgani · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ugh blarg
Dissatisfied with the ending.
Not the best one of these I've read.

[Jacqueline]

This was a kind of odd Amish book, there was time travel in it. I might have enjoyed it more with a different narrator.

[Pam McCallister · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

[Kaye Wingo · Rating 5 out of 5]

a fantastic book

[JoAnn McGowan · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was different , don’t want to spoil it - still enjoyable - I don’t like to be negative but I didn’t care for the narrator . Still a good read

[J.M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very unusual Amish book with a touch of spec-fiction to it! Great fun, including recipes I want to try.

[Sue Rouse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amish Romance

A romance book that travels between two time zones. Which zone will Heidi want to remain in changes throughout the book. Thanks to Samantha Price and her publisher.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kindle unlimited read - interesting story line from the main character & how her life spanned

[Dee · Rating 4 out of 5]

BORROWED ON HOOPLA

[Ellen White · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heidi, wondering what to do to make the office personal happy. Janelle was a key worker, feeling others weren't pulling their weight, so be it. Her interest was in Scott and the christmas party This was the life Heidi wanted, but being alone for Christmas, made memories come forth. Pulling out her grandmother's dairy, which she hadn't had time to read before. And now knowing that the true love, she had with Derek, money couldn't buy. A parallel time shows her the life with Derek, three children, and life in the community. Which one is the true reality, and the one she wants.Samantha did a good job of weaving the two, and readers wonder which is true. For Heidi she got to see what the two roads would of been like for her life.

[Barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a What If story, that was well written and kept me wanting to know what chose Heidi would eventually make . I know I am going to be rereading this book.I received a copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Cathie McManus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this story. It's the first Samantha Price book I have read. I live near the Amish and find them hardworking and helpful. I was wondering with Heidi what was happening. I will definitely read more of her books.

[Gail · Rating 4 out of 5]

Torn

I am torn between liking and disliking this story.I really did not enjoy the parts about NYC. However, that was needed to make this a unique story that I came to enjoy.

[Stella Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW!

Totally different and yet so well written that I could hardly wait to find out what happened next. Thanks Ms. Samantha for another great book!