A Beautiful Arrangement
by Beth Wiseman
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Pub Date Apr 07 2020 | Archive Date May 22 2020
Zondervan Fiction | Zondervan
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Description
Can Samuel and Lydia find love in their marriage of convenience? In the third and final novel in the Amish Journey series by bestselling author Beth Wiseman, a newlywed couple learns they must mend past hurts before they can hope to heal.
Lydia still can’t believe that she is Mrs. Samuel Bontrager. Or that she is seventeen with a six-month-old daughter. As baby Mattie grows fussier by the day, Lydia wonders how she will survive a lifetime of marriage to a man she doesn’t love—at least not in the way she wants.
Samuel knows he and Lydia did the right thing by marrying when Lydia became pregnant. He has even grown to love Lydia, though he never seems able to say the words out loud. What if she doesn’t love him back? After all, she pushes him away each time he tries to draw closer.
When Lydia and Samuel introduce their mutual friends Beverly and Joseph to each other, they are as envious as they are delighted to watch their friends fall in love. But just as Samuel thinks Lydia might be softening to him, she gets involved in investigating the mysterious past of a local homeless woman with a bad reputation—a curiosity that threatens to drive the couple further apart.
A testament to the renewal of love and hope, A Beautiful Arrangement is a poignant tale of forgiveness and learning to love unconditionally.
Praise for A Beautiful Arrangement:
“A Beautiful Arrangement has so much heart, you won't want to put it down until you've read the last page. I love second-chance love stories, and Lydia and Samuel's story is heartbreaking and sweet with unexpected twists and turns that make their journey to love all the more satisfying. Beth's fans will cherish this book.” —Jennifer Beckstrand, author of The Petersheim Brothers series
- A sweet, contemporary Amish romance
- Part of the Amish Journey Series
- Book one: Hearts in Harmony
- Book two: Listening to Love
- Book three: A Beautiful Arrangement
- Book length: approximately 85,000 words
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780310357179 |
| PRICE | $15.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 336 |
Featured Reviews
Carla J, Reviewer
A Beautiful Arrangement is the third book in the Amish Journey series. We met Lydia, Mary's sister, in the first book. She had gotten pregnant out of wedlock and so their families convinced them that the right thing to do was get married. Now Lydia and Samuel Bontrager are parents to six-month old Mattie, yet strangers to one another, even though they are husband and wife. They love their daughter, but are not happy with their lives. Watching their friends court, fall in love and get married leaves them wishing for the chance to maybe court one another now. Will they be able to fall in love after all?
This was a sweet story. Lydia and Samuel care about one another, but are easy to anger, and don't talk to each other about their feelings. Joe is a co-worker of Samuels, and Beverly is an acquaintance of Lydia. Joe is interested in her and Lydia and Samuel work as matchmakers to bring them together. Beverly is a widow who moved to their community to start a new life. The two couples get along find and it looks like Beverly and Joe might get together. Meanwhile Lydia and Samuel are getting closer through spending couple time with them. There are also a couple of other plot points that add much to this story. There is a homeless woman that Lydia wants to help and Beverly has a huge secret. Both of these can derail the relationships that are growing. I enjoyed this story with it's themes of falling in love, getting to know each other, homelessness, secrets, trusting each other's judgement, mental health and trusting one another. It also shows that all cultures or religions all deal with many of the same issues. I very much enjoyed this story with it's great characters and storylines.
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