The Harvest of Grace

The Harvest of Grace is book three of this series about Amish families.
Sylvia is the oldest of  eight girls. Her dad allowed her to help with the dairy cows but he did not include her in the finances and farming crop part. She is dating Elam who asked her to marry him. Sylvia did feel like she was ready so asked him to wait for her to give her answer. She discovered Elam was going into partnership with her dad and a couple of weeks later she discovers he has asked Beckie her sister to marry him and Beckie said yes.
 Sylvia stays around for a year or more until Beckie and the twins she had given birth too all had whooping cough and Sylvia was asked to take care of them since she had been vaccinated. She stays until Elam catches her in the barn and they kiss. She knows she has to get away so she persuaded her dad to let her go to another place and work on a dairy farm helping another family.
Michael Blank and his wife Dora had several babies just after birth and raised a daughter Elsie and son Aaron. Elsie was killed by a bull at age 28 and Aaron had went into rehab for alcoholism.Michael had arthritis and was unable to care for all the farm.
 Several months later Aaron come home and wants his parents to sell the house and move with him to another town and run an appliance store. His dad would not talk to him so he pitches in to help Sylvia on the farm for a few weeks.
  Cara and Lori are still living with Ada and Cara helps with the bakery items they sell while she is  learning Penn. Dutch language so she can join the church and marry Ephriam.Cara's dad shows up. She had not saw him since he left her at the bus station at 8 years old. He had been an alcoholic. Cara has lots of hatred for him and the church officials hear of it.
Ada has started courting Lena's dad, Israel. Lena and Grey have fallen in love but must wait till the mourning period is over to publicly court.
The Harvest of Grace is a story of love, grace, trials and hard work.
I was sent this book by Waterbook Multnomah to read and review. The comments are my own
I enjoyed this book by Cindy Woodsmall. It was interesting.If you like Christian/ Amish novels you will like it too.