A Family for Gracie

Amy Lillard writes entertaining Amish fiction and has entertained me for hours on end. A Family for Gracie, takes a third daughter in the Glick family, and puts her in a marriage in name only, but with five children. 

All Gracie wanted for all her life is a family of her own.   Matthew Byler has a family of five children--four boys and a baby girl.  The boys are just ordinary boys, sometimes rambunctious, sometimes awfully sweet, and sometimes just boys.  Gracie sees that the one thing this little family needs is a mother.  She proposes to Matthew and he accepts as long as the wedding is soon.

This was a marriage of miscommunication from the start.  Gracie wanted a full marriage and Matthew wanted only the convenience of having Gracie mother his children and do his housework for him. 

Amy has taken a common problem in many marriages and turned it into a plot that will entertain and enlighten her readers.  How she used the lack of communication in the book is something people can take to use in their own lives where there is a breakdown of communication. 

This is a five-star book with two thumbs up and a family in need of a mother.

My thanks go to Zebra Publishing and NetGalley.com for providing the galley I read.