Meghan Carver - Amish Covert Operation

She witnessed a crime

Can an agent in disguise keep her safe?

After Amish widow Katie Schwartz’s search for her reclusive brother results in a shooting and her finding a cryptic message, she must rely on federal agent Adam Troyer to shield her. But, undercover as a Plain man, can Adam save her brother’s life and protect Katie? Trusting the handsome Englisch agent is already dangerous...but falling for him could risk everything Katie holds dear.

By sixth grade, MEGHAN CARVERknew she wanted to write. After a degree in English from Millikin University, she detoured to law school, completing a Juris Doctor from Indiana University. She then worked in immigration law and taught college-level composition. Now she homeschools her six children with her husband. When she isn’t writing, homeschooling or planning another travel adventure, she is active in her church, sews and reads.

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Amish Covert Operation

Meghan Carver

www.millsandboon.co.uk

ISBN: 978-1-474-09686-7

AMISH COVERT OPERATION

© 2019 Meghan Carver

Published in Great Britain 2019

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“I have never been in danger before.”

“An ambulance should be coming with the police any minute now. Can you make it?”

Katie moaned. “I do not know. Can we get down now?”

Adam still hadn’t figured out the whereabouts of the shooter. But the alternative, Katie fainting and both of them falling out of the tree, wasn’t any better.

“Sure. Let’s go.” He stepped down a couple of branches and then turned to hold her around the waist and help her down. But with a look of dismay, she stared at her fingers, bloody from her leg wound, her face even whiter than before. He grabbed her around the waist. “Katie?”

Another shot rang out, tearing through the branches around them.

Surely they had been found. That shot had been aimed more directly at Katie.

She stared at him with glassy eyes. Time seemed to stand still in the nanosecond before she closed them.

Then she pitched forward off the branch and plummeted to the ground, her unconscious body pulling him with her.

Dear Reader,

Thank you for reading! Adam certainly had a struggle, didn’t he? As a child, his family life was torn apart by evil, and he grew up thinking he should never hope for a family because he needed to fight the evil. He thought a family would distract him from that goal. Yet he learned that devoting himself to a family was a fight against evil as well.

Katie struggled with control as so many of us do. Her prayers had become habitual, not a time of true communion with Gott . But in the search for her brother, she realized that Gott is the One who is ultimately in control and she needed to trust Him more. By the time she reached the sawmill, she was ready to admit that many things were out of her power and she needed to pray and leave it in Gott ’s hands. He always comes through!

I would be honored to hear from you. You can visit my website at www.meghancarver.com, where you can sign up for my author newsletter, or email me at MeghanCCarver@gmail.com. If you’re on Facebook, I’d like to be your friend at Facebook.com/meghancarverauthor. If you wish to write the Amish way, on good, old-fashioned stationery, you can send it to me c/o Love Inspired Books, 195 Broadway, 24th Floor, New York, NY 10007.

Many blessings to you,

Meghan Carver

I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

—Psalms 34:1

To the Amish friends the Lord has brought into my life recently. I am grateful for your kindness and generosity in answering my questions and opening yourselves to me. You know who you are.

Contents

Cover

Back Cover Text

About the Author

Booklist

Title Page

Copyright

Note to Readers

Introduction

Dear Reader

Bible Verse

Dedication

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

ELEVEN

TWELVE

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

SIXTEEN

EPILOGUE

Extract

About the Publisher

The steady rhythm of the bicycle did little to calm her nerves. Ominous dark blue clouds propelled Katie Schwartz forward. Faster. Her twin girls, Ruth and Rebekah, were safely ensconced with friends, and the adrenaline pulsing through her cemented her resolve to see this through.

A slight breeze ruffled the leaves, sending a few skittering across the road. But then it died, leaving an unnatural stillness in the hush of the oncoming storm. The only things still fluttering were her skirt around her knees and the ties of her prayer kapp flying behind her. They tickled her legs and her neck, like ants at a summer picnic, but she didn’t dare let loose of the handlebars. Beads of perspiration dotted her forehead.