Words from the Heart

Ivy has been writing to John King, an Amish man she met in Michigan while she was helping her cousin the previous year.  BUT, John only wrote to Ivy once and never replied to any of her letters.  She finally comes to the conclusion that there is no reason to try to continue keeping in touch with him.

Cevilla Schlabach is an elderly neighbor to Ivy and her family and she engages Ivy to help her nephew, Noah, to clean out her attic.  There are boxes and boxes and boxes of goods from her stepmother's home. Many of the boxes contain crocheted doilies, lots and lots and lots of doilies.  But in a few of the boxes are a few treasures that Noah would like to investigate for his auction business. 

Cevilla wants to see Noah and Ivy get together and marry.  Ivy's mother would like to see Ivy and Noah get together, but Ivy convinces her mother to let her conduct her own life. 

Letters weave their way throughout this book.  Kathleen Fuller knows the Amish life and the Amish psyche and has brought it to life through her characters.  Cevilla is not known for holding her tongue, Ivy is known to be a strong woman in spite of her petite size, Noah is a sweet, unassuming man who loves his aunt.  In Words from the Heart, Kathleen has added a love story from the Korean War years and then ties all the letters together with a ribbon of a story that will keep the reader involved from page one all the way through.  This is a five star book, with two thumbs up, and a wooden chest to keep your letters in.

My thanks to Thomas Nelson for allowing me to read and review this book.