<This is a standalone novel
with overlapping Stoney Ridge characters.>
The kind of doctor who still believes in house calls, Ruth “Dok”
Stoltzfus is in tune with addressing her patients’ physical needs as well as
their emotional ones. When newly widowed Bee Bennett, breeder of Dutch
Warmbloods, is facing breast cancer, Dok connects her with Fern Lapp. Bee doesn’t
think she needs to talk to anyone, especially an Amishwoman that she expects to
have zero connection with. Annie Fisher is Dok’s painfully shy office
assistant, but she’s got a great mind for medical information and a calm
demeanor in intense situations. When Annie feels called to something else, Dok
will move mountains to help her, and she’ll recruit her brother David, Stoney
Ridge’s Amish bishop, to assist. Annie will also discover that there just might
be a young man out there that she’d like to marry. He happens to be an Amish
EMT in a nearby town. And when an abandoned newborn mysteriously appears on the
front step of her clinic one cold morning, Dok’s world takes a very unexpected
turn.
Anytime I
pick up a novel by Suzanne Woods Fisher, I trust that it will be an excellent
read. Yet again, this trust remains firm. The characters are endearing, if
sometimes loud (Hank Lapp) or nosy (Sarah Blank, Annie’s friend), the plot is
well-defined, the writing is engaging, and the setting is as charming as your
most perfect day. It’s a delight to delve into this tight-knit community,
strong of faith, but with very human struggles, too (e.g. extreme shyness, even
a lack of faith). The author mesmerizes us with this Christian, contemporary
Amish romance that encourages the soul like good medicine.
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