An Amish Quilting Bee: Three Stories

by Amy Clipston, Kathleen Fuller, Shelley Shepard Gray

Overview

Three charming stories of cozy quilting circles and budding romance

Patchwork Promises by Amy Clipston

When Colin Zook and his beloved grandmother lose everything in a fire, their greatest loss is a beloved family heirloom quilt that helped keep her dementia at bay. When Joanne Lapp hears about the loss, she decides to re-create the quilt. Colin soon feels himself developing feelings for her, but he’s held back by the knowledge that a future with him would involve care of his grandmother and his farm. Will Joanne look past his list of responsibilities and see him for who he truly is?

A Common Thread by Kathleen Fuller

Susie Glick returns from a shopping trip laden with beautiful fabric for her quilting group. On the bus ride, Alex Lehman—her crush from three years ago—sits next to her. Alex left Middlefield to explore the country, and now he’s back and ready to join the church. Susie was just a kid when he left, but now she’s a woman—and she definitely has his interest. The women in her quilting circle aren’t as excited about Alex’s return, assuming that he’ll leave again in search of adventure. Susie is convinced they’re wrong, but just as they start dating, Alex tells Susie he has to leave. He says he’ll return, but Susie must decide whether or not she can trust the man she fears has captured her heart.

Stitched Together by Shelley Shepard Gray

Rosie’s joy is her yearly project for the Pinecraft Mennonite Quilt Sale, and she dreams of being the top earner. But she’s worried that she’s bitten off more than she can chew with her latest entry. To make things even more confusing, after coming to terms with her single state, she’s recently formed a friendship with Tim Christner. He’s only in town for a month, but he has Rosie wondering if she’s found love at last. Now all she has to do is figure out how to get the quilt done so she can concentrate on him. But with her once very organized life in total disarray, everything comes to a head just before the sale. Rosie is forced to reexamine her priorities before she loses not only her place in the quilt show but everything else she’s ever wanted.

• Sweet Amish novellas with happily-ever-afters
• Book length: 75,000 words
• Includes discussion questions for book clubs

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310365853
Publisher:	Zondervan
Publication date:	12/07/2021
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	513,811
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Amy Clipston is an award-winning bestselling author and has been writing for as long as she can remember. She's sold more than one million books, and her fiction writing "career" began in elementary school when she and a close friend wrote and shared silly stories. She has a degree in communications from Virginia Wesleyan University and is a member of the Authors Guild, American Christian Fiction Writers, and Romance Writers of America. Amy works full-time for the City of Charlotte, NC, and lives in North Carolina with her husband, two sons, mother, and four spoiled rotten cats. Visit her online at Amy Clipston.com; Facebook: @Amy Clipston Books; Twitter: @Amy Clipston; Instagram: @amy_clipston; Book Bub: @Amy Clipston.

With over two million copies sold, Kathleen Fuller is the USA TODAY bestselling author of several bestselling novels, including the Hearts of Middlefield novels, the Middlefield Family novels, the Amish of Birch Creek series, and the Amish Letters series as well as a middle-grade Amish series, the Mysteries of Middlefield. Visit her online at Kathleen Fuller.com; Instagram: @kf_booksandhooks; Facebook: @Writer Kathleen Fuller; Twitter: @The Kat Jam.

Shelley Shepard Gray is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, a finalist for the American Christian Fiction Writers prestigious Carol Award, and a two-time HOLT Medallion winner. She lives in southern Ohio, where she writes full-time, bakes too much, and can often be found walking her dachshunds on her town's bike trail. Find Shelley on her website: Shelley Shepard Gray.com; on Facebook: Shelley Shepard Gray; Twitter: @Shelley SGray.

Editorial Reviews

09/27/2021

This sweet trio of Amish romances from Clipston (The Heart of Splendid Lake), Fuller (Matched and Married), and Gray (An Amish Surprise) combine quilts as emblems of caring, with protagonists recovering from trauma. In Clipston’s “Patchwork Promises,” Joanne Lapp attempts to duplicate the quilt her friend Colin Zook’s grandmother, who suffers from dementia, cries for every night—having forgotten it was lost in a house fire. Despite Colin’s initially surly attitude, neither Joanne nor Colin want to give up their time together once the project is completed. In Fuller’s “A Common Thread,” Alex Lehman discloses his interest in Susie Glic just before departing town to help an injured friend. Susie’s mother’s concern that Alex will leave Susie (just as Susie’s father did) gets in the way of the budding relationship until the local quilting circle steps in to mediate. In Gray’s standout “Stitched Together,” Rosie Raber, who lost her fiancé in an accident, bonds with her would-have-been brother-in-law, Tim Christner, while taking care of rambunctious twin nieces and an escaped hamster, much to the detriment of Rosie’s plan to make a prize-winning quilt for the annual charity auction. Fans of contemporary Amish romances will love these entries. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly

A collection of novellas will bring comfort and joy to Amish novel fans in An Amish Quilting Bee by Amy Clipston, Kathleen Fuller and Shelley Shepard Gray . . . These are all entertaining, heart-warming stories that will introduce new fans to the authors and please old fans of them.

The Parkersburg News and Sentinel