Turning Home
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
In this tender Amish romance, an Amish man who is returning to his community and faith is drawn to a young woman who is still reeling from past wounds.
When Luke Bowman returns to the Amish faith after years of being away from home, he does so with absolute conviction. Those feelings are shaken when he meets Julia Durant, a non-Amish woman who works at his family's furniture-making business. Despite his instincts, Luke is drawn to Julia, and although Julia is still recovering from a brutal assault when she was a college student, she is drawn to Luke as well.
As Luke and Julia grow closer, and their fragile friendship grows stronger, Luke wants to be with Julia, but the reason he came home--his faith--is now the thing keeping them apart. Luke and Julia will have to decide whether their relationship can survive this divide, and whether the home Luke has made in the Amish faith is one that's fit for two.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the tender Amish romance that launches Johnson's Tompkin's Mills series, a woman visiting her brother decides to make her vacation permanent. Julia Durant is still traumatized from a brutal assault years earlier, so her brother's sleepy Missouri town, Tompkin's Mills, seems welcoming and safe. She finds a job at a local Amish furniture shop and discovers an odd sense of belonging among the Amish though her feelings for Luke Bowman, the shop owner's son and her new coworker, present a complication. Luke has just returned home after a 10-year absence from his family and his faith and feels Julia's presence to be a constant temptation. Though Luke is tall and imposing, Julia appreciates his gentle nature, and their forbidden attraction blossoms into a chaste romance. Johnson (Hunting Season) has a gift for portraying emotional depth and vulnerability in just a few subtle glances and fleeting touches. And when an acquaintance from Luke's time away from his faith comes back into his life in an unexpected way, it adds a welcome wrinkle to the traditional romance plot. This is sure to win readers' hearts.
