The Christmas Quilt

Years ago, Rebecca Beachy kept her reasons for rejecting Gideon Troyer’s marriage proposal a secret.

Then Gideon left their Amish community. Longing to fly, he traded his family’s Ohio farm for flight school, building a charter business in New York. Could ten years in the English world—a decade spent soaring above the clouds—ever truly silence his longing for home?

Now, Rebecca crafts quilts to raise money to cure her blindness. She’s also busy guarding her heart against love. Living with her aunt Vera, she stitches each pattern by feel, hoping specialized surgery can restore her vision. Until Gideon returns, at risk of being shunned, to make the winning bid on one of her exquisite quilts.

Will the quilt—a patchwork promise of rediscovered love—bring Gideon and Rebecca back together again?

• Second Chance Romance: Ten years after fleeing his Amish upbringing, Gideon returns under his flight-school nickname Booker, terrified that confessing his true identity will cost him Rebecca’s fragile trust.
• Blind Heroine: Stitching alone in her bedroom by touch, Rebecca embroiders her name in delicate French knots across the corner of a secret Christmas Star quilt intended for someone special.
• Small Town Setting: A sudden midnight blaze at the village harness shop brings the community together to raise a new frame from the ashes, testing Gideon’s courage when he plunges into the flames.
• Holiday Romance: Gliding across the frozen Sutter farm pond beside Gideon, Rebecca rediscovers the carefree joy of youth as Christmas approaches and long-buried feelings resurface.
• Also by This Author: Katie’s Redemption, The Amish Nanny and A Home for Hannah.