The Harvest of Grace by Cindy Woodsmall

The third book in the Ada's House series, this book brings the trilogy to a nice conclusion.  I'm sad to say goodbye to the characters in this series.  I'd love to find out what happened to them all later in life, but I guess that's where I can use my own imagination!  It's just hard to end a series when you love the characters.

This book picks up where Aaron Blank has been to rehab and has gotten out.  He desires to make things right with his family so he goes back to the farm to attempt reconciliation and to hopefully have his parents realize that they need to see the farm and move in with him to help run a store.  His desire for farming has long left him and he is seeking a new start to life.  While Aaron was in rehab, he didn't realize that his dad had hired a farm hand, Sylvia Fisher, to help run his farm. 

Sylvia is not your typical Amish woman.  She doesn't want to just stay home and raise babies.  She loves her family's dairy farm, but a betrayal by her boyfriend and sister have caused her to run away from the farm to avoid reconciliation and to hid from the guilt.  Her father meets Michael Blank and the two agree that Sylvia could work at the Blank farm.  With Sylvia's love for the dairy farm and Aaron's strong intent on selling the farm, how will these two ever work together?  What will end up happening to the farm?  What will happen when Sylvia must come face to face with her guilt and how can it ever be reconciled?

That is the main story throughout the book, but you also have the story of Cara learning to forgive her father who abandoned her, Ephraim and Cara finding out how long they must wait to get married, Grey and Lena finding out if they will be able to have children without disabilities once they are married, Deborah and Jonathan taking steps toward marriage and Ada and Israel finally figuring out what they want in their relationship. 

If you've read the first two, you must read this book.  If you haven't read the first two, then do it and then get this one.  Cindy writes in a way that makes you keep turning pages and makes you feel as though you are living your life among the Amish, even if it is just for the time that you are escaping to inside of the book.

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I received this book free from Waterbrook Press through the Blogging for Books program in exchange for my honest opinion of this book.