Jo Ann - The Amish Bachelor's Baby

A baby changes everything

for the Amish Spinster Club

Working in Caleb Hartz’s shop fits perfectly with Annie Wagler’s plan to match him with her twin sister—until Annie is drawn to him herself. But with his business, his farm and now his teenage runaway cousin and her baby, Caleb has no time for romance. Can they work together to care for mother and child—without losing their hearts?

JO ANN BROWNhas always loved stories with happily-ever-after endings. A former military officer, she is thrilled to have the chance to write stories about people falling in love. She is also a photographer and travels with her husband of more than thirty years to places where she can snap pictures. They have three children and live in Florida. Drop her a note at joannbrownbooks.com.

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The Amish Bachelor’s Baby

Jo Ann Brown

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ISBN: 978-1-474-09481-8

THE AMISH BACHELOR’S BABY

© 2019 Jo Ann Ferguson

Published in Great Britain 2019

by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

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Happiness rushed through Annie when she saw Caleb on the porch steps behind her.

Stop it! He was meant to be her twin sister’s match and her way to happiness, not Annie’s.

“Looks like you didn’t get your laundry done earlier in the week.”

“These are your cousin’s and her boppli’s clothes.”

“I didn’t mean to dump this extra work on you, Annie. If you’d rather, I can pay you for taking care of my cousin and her boppli and find someone else to work with me at the bakery.”

“No!”

His eyes widened at her vehemence.

She told herself to be cautious or she’d give away her true reason for accepting his job offer. Working with Caleb would be Annie’s best opportunity to gently shove him and her sister toward each other.

“I want to work with you at the bakery,” she replied as if it were the most important oath she could take.

And it was, because what she did while in Caleb’s company could mean the difference between healing her sister’s heart or not.

But what would it do to hers?

Dear Reader,

We all have dreams. I have had the dream of being a published author since I was twelve years old. Each time I have another book published, it’s like that dream coming true all over again.

But we have to balance those dreams with the real world. Both have to be equally important, or our dreams can end up dead and useless. On the other hand, some dreams aren’t meant to come true, as Annie has to learn. Isn’t it splendid that usually when that happens, we find, as both Caleb and Annie do, that God had a plan all along for us that leads us to new and better dreams?

Visit me at www.joannbrownbooks.com. Look for the final story in the Amish Spinster Club series, coming soon.

Wishing you many blessings,

Jo Ann Brown

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

—John 15:12

For Mike Freeman,

a superstar real estate agent...

with a fabulous sense of humor.

Thanks for everything!

Contents

Cover

Back Cover Text

About the Author

Booklist

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

Dear Reader

Bible Verse

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Epilogue

Extract

About the Publisher

“Don’t you dare eat those socks!”

Annie Wagler leaped off the back porch as the sock carousel soared on a gust and headed toward the pen where her twin sister’s goats were watching her bring in the laundry. The plastic circle, which was over twelve inches in diameter, had been clipped to the clothesline. As she’d reached for it, the wind swept it away.

Snow crunched beneath her boots, and she ducked under the clothes that hung, frozen hard, on the line. She despised bringing in laundry during the winter and having to hang the clothing over an air-dryer rack inside until it thawed. She hated everything to do with laundry: washing it, hanging it, bringing it in and folding it, ironing it and mending it. Every part of the process was more difficult in the cold.

Pulling her black wool shawl closer, she ran toward the fenced-in area where Leanna’s goats roamed. She wasn’t sure why they’d want to be outside on such a frigid day, but they were clumped together near where Leanna would feed them later. Annie sometimes wondered if the goats were one part hair, hooves and eyes, and three parts stomach. They never seemed to be full.