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Clara's ChoiceBook Three of the Clara Engelman Series After a suitor from Clara's past discovers the truth about her bishop, she's back to square one-both for finding a husband for herself and a father for her two children.Although she wants her next marriage to include love, she's not sure it will. When her old suitor asks if they can court, she must abandon her dreams of love with her English neighbor, especially now that he is seeing another woman-who Clara has no friendly feelings for.Will Clara be the proper Beachy Amish Mennonite woman and marry to strengthen family and community, or will she choose love if at all possible-as impossible as it seems?

Clara's MourningBook One of the Clara Engelman Series Devastated by the death of her husband, Clara Engelman is left with two young children to raise, plus a farm to tend over twenty miles away from her Beachy Amish community. Although duty to her children and to her community says to marry again, the grief over her beloved Abram is too much to bear. As her sadness slowly recedes, she considers a possible suitor. If they marry, however, she doubts her ability to love him. Then there's an old flame from before Abram, someone she could possibly love. Unfortunately, the one man she may already love is her English, neighbor, who has come to her rescue a number of times ... literally.. Marry for duty or marry for love? Clara can't even consider a courtship until her mourning is over, and she has no idea when that will be-if ever.

For fans of The Time Traveler's Wife, Life After Life, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Coincidence of Hope joins the paranormal stage in a World War II Americana novel like few others. It's 1944. Word War II is raging and Nebraska farm boy Joe Matthan is-without a single doubt in his young heart-in love. But he has other things on his mind, such as shipping off to Europe, leaving Elaine Johnson, and how it will affect her if he dies in battle.Which he does.When Joe loses his life in the war, he inexplicably lives on-as a ghost who inhabits the living. Although he clings to the hope of returning to Elaine to see what happened to her without him, he's all but given up on that possibility.But a number of coincidences have other plans.Over fifty years later, when Joe arrives in his hometown, a number of coincidences force him to ask why he didn't move on when he died, and-more importantly-if he must surrender his dream of being with Elaine again ... in the afterlife.An intriguing novel that weaves back and forth between the past and the present, which includes interesting combinations of character points of view and factual history, The Coincidence of Hope delves into the one challenge we all should meet: before judging others, we should place ourselves within their perspective, for they may be more like us than we care to admit.