About the Book
Book: The Amish Mother’s Secret
Author: Diane Craver
Genre: Amish Romance
Release Date: December 22, 2022
Sometimes a beautiful miracle comes to you at exactly the wrong time…
Lindsay Prescott is 40 and single when tragedy strikes. Diagnosed with stage 4, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer, her instinct is to right the wrongs in her life. Her unfortunate childhood with an alcoholic, verbally abusive mother drove her to break free in desperation at the age of 17. While working at a hotel along the beach on the East Coast, she met Harris Manning. He took her breath away and she gave herself to him in love.
Harris’ life was already planned out for him by his wealthy parents. Falling for Lindsay had been a dream. However, compelled to wed the woman his parents chose for him, he’d left her to endure a shaky marriage.
Though Harris never knew it, Lindsay found herself pregnant when he left her with no way to care for identical triplets on her own. When the triplets were five months old, she reconnected with an Amish couple—Katie and Roman Yoder—who were unable to have children. The Yoders adopted Amy and Jenna while Lindsay kept Phoebe. She couldn’t bear to give all three babies away. In the years that followed, Katie worked hard to keep her away from her adopted daughters.
When you let go of a miracle, can you ever capture it again?
After Harris learns his ex-wife intercepted Lindsay’s calls years ago to tell him she was pregnant, he rushes to her side, thrilled to discover he’s a father. But life rarely gives fairytale endings. Revealing the truth may prove more devastating than the hurdles that came before…and all that will surely come after for a woman fighting for her life.
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My review This book is a tear jerker. It has a lot of issues. It deals with adoption and the parents keeping it a secret and then the birth mother gets cancer and wants her daughter that she kept to know her sisters so she won’t be alone if she dies. This book is a good read but it brought up lots of issues for me. It deals with adoption(my 4 grandsons are adopted. A character dies in a car wreck( not part of the story( just part of the character’s past) but my son was killed in a hit and run so that was a trigger for me as I am still grieving the loss of him. My mother had a 7 year struggle with cancer before she died of cancer.
Even with all these triggers for me I enjoyed the story. It is really an inspiration tale of second chances and forgiveness.
I received a complimentary copy from the author and Celebrate Lit and these opinions are my own.
About the Author
Diane Craver is the author of The Amish Mother’s Secret, Book 1 in The Amish Adoption Series and two popular Amish series, Dreams of PlainDaughters and The Bishop’s Daughters. Diane also writes romantic suspense, inspirational contemporary romance, historical Christian fiction and women’s fiction. Her emotional reads receive great reviews. Although she started her career writing non-fiction, she switched to writing fiction. She wanted to keep her sanity in the midst of having a large family. Writing fiction with quirky and memorable characters gave her the escape she needed from her noisy household. Diane met her husband Tom while teaching at an orphanage. They enjoy their life in southwestern Ohio, and have been blessed with six children and several grandchildren. Two adult daughters with Down syndrome live with Tom and Diane. Her family is supportive of her writing career, and her favorite vacation is going to the beach with them. She gives thanks daily to God for her wonderful blessings, including being in remission from Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
More from Diane
When I started writing The Amish Mother’s Secret, a friend had been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. I decided to have my main character, Lindsay, to have the same type of cancer. I used many of the details of his illness for my character’s cancer. Then an unbelievable thing happened to me. I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. I never expected to have cancer with none in my family history.
It was hard telling our children I was diagnosed with stage four cancer. It was stage four because it was found in many of my lymph nodes throughout my body. I rewrote the details in my manuscript so that my character reflected the type of lymphoma I had. Also, after the six months of chemo, I started two years of maintenance therapy. My oncologist said doing this therapy treatment during remission could reduce the risk of recurrence and improve the cure rate for me.
While doing my months of chemo treatments, I received thoughtful gifts, devotional books, two prayer blankets and cards with wonderful Bible verses from friends and relatives. Feeling God’s love through them helped me to get through a difficult time in my life. I appreciated all the prayers said for me to recover from cancer. I have been blessed with an awesome support group of readers.
During this stressful time, I heard from agent Lesley Sabga of The Seymour Agency. She wanted to represent me and told me how much she loved my voice. I hadn’t been looking for an agent so it was a wonderful blessing to sign with Lesley. I had planned on The Amish Mother’s Secret to be a standalone novel, but Lesley acquired a three-book contract for me with Vinspire Publishing. I enjoyed writing about the two mothers, Lindsay and Katie, in Book One, The Amish Mother’s Secret. Both mothers were from two different worlds, but their love never wavered for their children. The second book in my Amish Adoption series, An Unexpected Gift, continues the adoption theme and is also available for purchase. Book three will release next year.
Blog Stops
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, September 9
Texas Book-aholic, September 10
Mary Hake, September 10
Lighthouse Academy Blog, September 11(Guest Review from Marilyn Ridgway)
Locks, Hooks and Books, September 12
Connie’s History Classroom, September 13
Abba’s Prayer Warrior Princess, September 14
Splashes of Joy, September 14
Bizwings Book Blog, September 15
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, September 16
The Book Club Network, September 17
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, September 18
Vicky Sluiter, September 18
For Him and My Family, September 19
Cover Lover Book Review, September 20
JESUS in the EVERYDAY, September 21
Books I’ve Read, September 22
Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Diane is giving away the grand prize package of a $25 Amazon gift card and a copy of the book!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
https://promosimple.com/ps/27a70/the-amish-mother-s-secret-celebration-tour-giveaway
12 comments:
Sounds like a book I will enjoy reading.
Rita,
Thank you so much for commenting and visiting Debbie's blog.
Debbie,
Thank you so much for hosting me on your wonderful blog. I appreciate you reading my book and taking the time to write your review. I'm sorry I had three issues in my book that were triggers for you. That's interesting about you having 4 adopted grandsons.
I know some reviewers would not want to read my book if they had even one of these issues to experience in life. I'm so sorry about your son, and the grief has to be overwhelming. That is sad your mother had seven years of dealing with her cancer before she died from it. I wish she could have survived the cancer. I'm sorry for your losses.
Love Amish books.
Mrilyn
Hi Traciem, I have a laptop so when the weather is nice, I enjoy sitting on the porch to write. Otherwise, I might be in my bedroom where my desk is. I don't have a separate office. Thanks for asking!
I'm glad to hear you love Amish books! Thanks for commenting!
The Amish Mother’s Secret by Diane Craver sounds very good. I love to read Amish books!
Emma,
Thanks so much for commenting! I'm happy to hear you love Amish fiction!
This sounds like a very interesting story that takes place both in the Amish community and the Englisher community.
Roxanne,
Thanks for commenting. Have a nice evening!
This sounds like a great book! Deff adding to my tbr!
Thank you for visiting Debbie's blog and for commenting! Happy Reading to you!
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