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    Amish Cinderella Book 1: Amish Fairy Tales (A Lancaster County Christmas) series, #1
    Amish Cinderella Book 1: Amish Fairy Tales (A Lancaster County Christmas) series, #1
    Amish Cinderella Book 1: Amish Fairy Tales (A Lancaster County Christmas) series, #1
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    Amish Cinderella Book 1: Amish Fairy Tales (A Lancaster County Christmas) series, #1

    By Rachel Stoltzfus

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    Will sixteen-year-old Ella have the strength to fight for her future with Samuel in the face of treachery, violence, and a shocking tragedy that threatens everything she's ever wanted?

    Set in a whimsical Lancaster County of fantastic possibility grounded in strong Christian values, sixteen-year-old Amish orphan Ella faces constant abuse as she struggles to do all of her own chores as well as those of her two older cousins. Ella has only her whittling and a deep and abiding faith in God to give her strength and comfort. Desperately wishing for some kind of escape, but knowing that it is almost impossible as she has neither time nor permission to step away from her work to court with other local boys, Ella prays every day for a chance to pursue her dream of having a loving home and family of her own. But when Ella meets the deacon's nephew, Samuel, who has moved from Somerset to Lancaster, will their instant connection be enough to defeat the treachery of Ella's cousins, the violence of her uncle, and a tragedy that threatens to destroy the fragile hope for a future that Ella has managed to hold onto in spite of all odds?

    Find out in Amish Cinderella - Book 1 by Rachel Stoltzfus

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGlobal Grafx Press
    Release dateDec 11, 2014
    ISBN9781502295057
    Amish Cinderella Book 1: Amish Fairy Tales (A Lancaster County Christmas) series, #1

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      Amish Cinderella Book 1 - Rachel Stoltzfus

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      Chapter ONE

      Chapter TWO

      PREVIEW - BOOK 2

      Chapter ONE

      A Special Thank You Gift for You

      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      Dearest Reader,

      I have always been enamored of how literature allows us to step into new worlds and see things through different eyes. As a child, my grandmother gave me a book of colorfully illustrated Bible stories that I read from cover to cover. In addition, I immersed myself in fanciful literature including Grimm’s original fairy tales (in English) and C.S. Lewis’s masterpiece, The Chronicles of Narnia.

      While my recent fiction has been of a solidly realist bent, I wanted to do something a bit different for the holidays. I happened on a very interesting article from Robert Treskillard on Holy Worlds: A Community of Christ Centered Creativity where he asks, "How can a fantasy story be Christian?"

      After pointing out that a story cannot be Christian because the word Christian simply means a follower of Christ (as it was first used in Antioch in the 1st century,) Mr. Treskillard goes on to discuss the perils that many of us face in defining Christian fiction purely in terms of a market.

      Implicitly, this begs the question: as Christian writers, is our goal simply to preach to our own choirs, or are we meant to have a greater ministry?

      In response to this question, Mr. Treskillard offers a challenge:

      I want you to raise the standard.  To stop thinking of Christian in terms of marketing, but instead think of it in terms of Christ’s glory. I would like us to think of Christian fantasy to mean Christ glorifying fantasy.

      In other words, maybe we need to start thinking intentionally, authentically, boldly, and delightedly about glorifying Christ—and therefore God—through our fantasy novels.

      As I’ve had this idea of mixing the real and fantastic together in an Amish story since Ruth wrote her Amish Christmas Carol last year, I decided this would be my year!

      I hope you enjoy these Amish Fairy Tale stories. They are set in a world similar (though at points a bit different) from our own. I’ve done my best to integrate aspects of Amish culture with traditional fairy tales in a way that I hope is whimsical and at the same time, brings glory and honor to our Lord.

      I hope I am, in some small way, able to meet Mr. Treskillard’s challenge through these Amish Fairy Tales. And I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them.

      All the Best,

      Rachel

      Chapter ONE

      The mop’s soaked strands pushed the bubbling water across the floorboards in front of the potbellied stove.  As always, I was careful not to let too much water seep into the wood. 

      I shuddered to recall what had happened the last time, when Uncle Barnabas nearly cracked the mop handle over the back of my head.  I had crouched down low, huddled in the corner of the room, hands over my head, quivering and crying and waiting for the blow to come—body tense, nerves tight.

      But the Lord had stayed his hand, sparing me a life-threatening wallop.  Still, I knew the wrath that was so easily provoked could come crashing down again, at any moment.  I lived in fear of that horrible hand falling down on me again, as if out of nowhere, at my slightest misstep. 

      I wrung out the mop by hand, filthy water pouring over my clenching fists as I tried to squeeze it dry before dipping it back into that grey bilge.  It made the job twice as difficult, and made it take twice as long, but Uncle Barnabas wouldn’t give

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