The Christmas Silence

Now he has come home baptized, silent, and almost unrecognizable. He lives alone above his carpenter shop, crafting beautiful things he will never keep, speaking only when necessary-and looking through Phoebe as though the girl he once cared for has become a stranger.

Phoebe tells herself she no longer cares.

So when Silas's mother asks her to deliver Christmas baking to his shop each week, she vows to be nothing more than a neighbor. But Silas remembers little things no indifferent man should remember. A favorite kind of cookie. A childhood promise. The way Phoebe takes her tea.

And then there is Rosanna Bender.

The new schoolteacher keeps finding reasons to seek Silas out, and whatever lies between them began during the three years he was away. Neither of them will speak of it.

Ten days before Christmas, a half-frozen puppy is discovered beneath the schoolhouse steps-and suddenly the past Silas has tried so desperately to bury begins finding its way home.

With a kind widower waiting for Phoebe's answer and Silas secretly preparing to leave the settlement for good, Christmas Eve becomes their last chance. One carol. One hidden letter. One confession beneath the falling snow.

And Phoebe must discover whether the man who once walked away from her truly stopped loving her-or whether Silas came home believing that what happened during rumspringa had cost him the right to be loved at all.

A tender Amish Christmas romance of buried grief, quiet devotion, and second chances-where sometimes forgiveness arrives on four small paws.