Thursday's Bride

Rosmanda was living with her mother and father-in-law after her husband was killed in an accident going to bring his brother home from a drunken binge.  She did everything she possibly could to help out on the farm, but her efforts weren't quite enough.  And that's when her in-law's other son shows up.  It was because she'd had history with Levi that she resented his presence.  It took a while for the two of them to come to a rather tense but peaceful truce. 

Rosmanda came to Pennsylvania to escape a past indiscretion from her teens.  When her past shows up in Indiana, she has to tell what happened with the situation, and face the judgment of a whole new community.  It becomes apparent that she needs to move back to Pennsylvania to her parents' home.

Patricia Johns knows much about the Amish lifestyle as well as how to use the knowledge to put together a readable novel with compelling plots and likable characters.  This is a book worth four strong stars.

Kensington Books and NetGalley.com provided the copy I read for this review.  The opinions expressed here are my own.