The Strawberry On The Step

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For eleven years, no one would set foot on the old Fisher farm. They called it cursed. Three good men died there the night the barn burned. The widow fled in the dark and took her last son with her. The house stood empty. The settlement looked away. Only Sadie Chupp still went. Quietly, every evening, she swept the porch and tended the roses of a boy she was sure she would never see again. Each June she kept a long-held tradition. Then he comes back. Daniel Fisher returns a changed man, worn down by years in the city, carrying a secret he has never told anyone. He wants one thing. To come home for good. To be plain again and to win back the life the fire took from him. But the price is high. The bishop will not make it easy. Her father will not even look at him. And the woman who waited all these years is promised to someone else. Two faithful hearts. One narrow lane. A whole town that has not decided whether to welcome him or turn its back. Can a promise kept for eleven years mend what the fire broke?

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Is The Strawberry On The Step appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 13 and up.

Clean Amish romance with no explicit content, mild references to a past fire that killed three men, and themes of community forgiveness and redemption. Entirely appropriate for teen and adult readers.