His Pretend Amish Bride

Gabriel Kauffman has bought a farm where he is raising camels and selling their milk.  He's researched the benefits of camels' milk and wants to make a go of selling the milk to families who could use the milk for their own health. 

Priscilla Ebersol is an assistant to the teacher of the special needs school in her Amish community.  She loves being there because she loves helping the special needs children--especially her brother, Asher, who is autistic.  She has been dating Matthew for about a year when she finds out that he's been having  relationship behind her back with his boss's daughter, Mara.  And it seems that Matthew and Mara have been caught in a compromising situation, but Mara looks enough like Priscilla that the people in their community assume it was Priscilla in the orchard with Matthew.  When Matthew comes forward for confession, he does not clear up Priscilla's name, and lets the church assume the worst about her.

Gabriel's farm and dairy operations are assaulted by unscrupulous business owners who want to put Gabriel out of business and make a fair try at it by calling in the Food and Drug Administration inspectors to try to shut down Gabriel's farm.  Much of the book revolves around the inspection and the help Priscilla gives Gabriel to work through the inspection and the help she gives him for the school field trip she has set up for the horse therapy farm her friend Hope has. 

I am finding I like Rachel J Good's writings books better than some of the other Amish fiction authors.  Her characters are human beings with flaws and foibles, and her settings are true to form for where the stories are located.

The Pretend Amish Bride is a five star book, with two thumbs up, and a free pint of camel's milk.

Kensington Publications and NetGalley.com provided the galley I read for this review.  All opinions expressed are my own.