The Bake Shop

No one bakes sweets like Christiana Kurtz, and her empty bake stand every day proves it.  People come from all over to buy her goods, many times coming to her house during their dinner to buy pies or cakes. 

When Christiana visits her cousins at the Bird-in-Hand market tell her of a booth opening up, Christiana approaches her extremely strict father about opening up her bake stand in the market booth. She has to talk really hard to convince her father about moving to the market and the benefits it will bring her family to only be open three days a week.  She will have more time to help out at home while she does her baking in between chores, and no more after hours visits from customers.

The Bake Shop is Amy Clipston's newest book and the first of a series taking place in the marketplace.  I think the coming books in the series will be about Christiana's cousins who already have booths in the marketplace. 

In the booth next to Christiana's is Jeff Stolzfus, maker of gifts in leather and wood.  It's not long before they notice each other and find that there is something more than friendship between them.  The only fly in the ointment is Christiana's father's attitude. 

Amy is one of the best Amish fiction writers around.  I will read her books (along with Kathleen Fuller's) any time I get a chance.  They are fun, engaging, intriguing, and altogether consuming.  This is a five star book, with two thumbs up, and a homemade whoopie pie. 

My thanks go to Zondervan Fiction and NetGalley.com for providing the galley I read for this review.