The Road Home
Authors: Patrick E. Craig
Praise for
A Quilt for Jenna
,
the first book in Patrick E. Craig's
Apple Creek Dreams seriesâ¦
“Patrick Craig writes with an enthusiasm and a passion that are a joy to read. He deals with romance, faith, love, loss, tragedy, and restoration with equal amounts of elegance, grace, clarity, and power. Everyone should pick up his debut novel in Amish fiction, turn off the phone and computer and TV, and settle in for a good night's read. Craig's book is a blessing.”
Murray Pura
author of
The Wings of Morning
and
Ashton Park
“A good storyteller takes a fine story and places it in a setting peppered with enough accurate details to satisfy a native son. Then he peoples it with characters so real we keep thinking we see them walking down the street. A great storyteller takes all that and binds it together with, say, a carefully constructed Rose of Sharon quilt and the wallop of a storm of the century that actually happened.
A Quilt for Jenna
proves Patrick Craig to be a great storyteller.”
Kay Marshall Strom
author of the Grace in Africa and Blessings in India trilogies
“A touching tale of three people who have lost their way. In
A Quilt for Jenna
, Patrick Craig deftly contrasts the peaceful Amish lifestyle with the harsh World War II Guadalcanal battlefield, tied together with a lovely message of sacrifice, humility, and forgiveness. I was entranced.”
Sarah Sundin
award-winning author of
With Every Letter
HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Cover by Garborg Design Works, Savage, Minnesota
Cover photos © Chris Garborg; Bigstock / Jan Marijs, VibrantImage
Author photo by William CraigâCraig Propraphica
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE ROAD HOME
Copyright © 2013 by Patrick E. Craig
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Craig, Patrick E.
The road home / Patrick E. Craig.
pages cm.â(Apple Creek dreams series ; bk. 2)
ISBN 978-0-7369-5107-4 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-5108-1 (eBook)
1. AmishâOhioâFiction. 2. FoundlingsâFiction. 3. Family secretsâFiction. I. Title.
PS3603.R3554R63 2013
813'.6âdc23
2013005873
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To my wife, Judy,
who over our twenty-five years together
has shown me that the Lord truly sets the solitary in families
Thanks to Nick Harrison, my editor and strong advocate for the Apple Creek Dreams series,
and to
Steve Laube, for his wisdom and guidance through the sometimes treacherous and always challenging shoals of publishing novels, and for encouraging me to write this series in the first place.
C
ONTENTS
Chapter Four: The Long and Winding Road
Chapter Seventeen: The Bargain
Chapter Twenty-Three: Call to Arms
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Blood
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Hideout
Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Quilt for Jenny
Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Light in the Darkness
Chapter Thirty-One: The Agreement
Chapter Thirty-Two: A Key in the Lock
Chapter Thirty-Three: More Answers
Chapter Thirty-Four: The Visit
Chapter Thirty-Five: A Missing Link
Chapter Thirty-Six: The Journal
Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Truth Will Set You Free
Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Road Home
What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!
C
HARLES
D
ICKENS
B
LEAK
H
OUSE
W
HEN
I
WAS A PASTOR
, I once counseled two young people who wanted to get married. She was a Christian, but he was not. Like the character in this story, his name was Jonathan. My wife and I spent many days with this precious young couple, doing our best to share the Lord with Jon, but he seemed impervious to the pressing of the Spirit.