The Promise Box (Seven Brides for Seven Bachelors)

By: Tricia Goyer

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Synopsis: Every year, young Amish men descend on the cozy little town of West Kootenai, Montana, arriving in the spring to live there for six months and receive &“resident&” status for the hunting season in the fall. They arrive as bachelors, but go home with brides!In The Promise Box, the second book of best-selling author Tricia Goyer&’s Seven Brides for Seven Bachelors series, Lydia Wyse, a book editor from Seattle who grew up Amish, returns to the small community of West Kootenai to give comfort to her father after her mother&’s death. She is drawn back to the familiar Amish ways after finding her mother&’s most precious possession, a Promise Box of prayers and scripture. What her publisher sees, though, is an opportunity for a sensational &“tell-all&” book about the Amish.Lydia soon finds herself falling in love with Amish bachelor Gideon Hooley. She wants nothing more than to forget her past and look forward to a future as an Amish bride. But will the pain of her childhood—and her potential betrayal of her community—keep her from committing her whole heart?