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    A Lancaster Amish Quilt of Stars
    A Lancaster Amish Quilt of Stars
    A Lancaster Amish Quilt of Stars
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    A Lancaster Amish Quilt of Stars

    By Daisy Fields

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    Discontented Amish farmer boy Isaac Fisher loves the night sky and just wants to live in a world of science and technology like the Englischers. As soon as he can, he escapes on rumspringa to an Englischer high school and gets his hands on his first telescope. He wants to become a scientist . . . but what about his Amish faith and community?

    Meanwhile, Rebecca Beiler feels moved to follow Isaac into the Englischer world, though for what purpose she doesn’t know. Once there, all she wants is to get away from this place of cell phones and short skirts and go back home to her family, farm, and from-scratch baking. Isaac, the person she thought would understand her, won't even look her way.

    Can Rebecca, so very different from Isaac, possibly help him to find his way back to seeing God in the starlit skies—and even to love with her? Find out in this exciting tale of Amish fiction!

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaisy Fields
    Release dateJan 17, 2015
    ISBN9781310365461
    A Lancaster Amish Quilt of Stars
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    Daisy Fields

    Daisy Fields is a former accountant whose life changed after she took a trip through Amish country in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The simple pace of life and the Amish devotion to God made her question her own current breakneck lifestyle, and Daisy decided she wanted something more. She quit her job, threw away her cell phone, and began to pray.Now she pens stories about the people she admires so deeply and hopes you'll enjoy reading them as much as she did writing them. Please check her Amazon author page for new releases.

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      A Lancaster Amish Quilt of Stars - Daisy Fields

      A LANCASTER AMISH QUILT OF STARS

      Daisy Fields

      Copyright 2014 Daisy Fields

      All Rights Reserved

      The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author or Global Grafx Press, LLC.

      A Lancaster Amish Quilt of Stars

      (Lancaster County Skies #1)

      By Daisy Fields

      Copyright 2014 Daisy Fields

      All Rights Reserved

      Chapter One: Six Months Ago

      Despite the fact that everyone was fanning themselves and heading back inside the Millers’ house for icy glasses of lemonade, Rebecca Beiler stayed where she was, staring after Isaac Fisher. She hadn’t talked to him all that much in the past year, not since Isaac had gotten sulky and started spending more and more time away from everyone else, but that didn’t change the fact that they’d once been friends.

      Before Isaac had decided that he was going on rumspringa and never coming back.

      It was all he talked about—oh, not to anyone in the community. He was smart, and he didn’t want to hurt his mamm and daed. But every Saturday, when his mamm and sister Sarah packed the hired car with their freshly baked goods to sell at the market, he would chat with the Englischer driver, a friendly, middle-aged black man by the name of Dennis. Because Rebecca and her mamm were loading up their own baked items, Rebecca had been able to slip close enough to hear the conversation.

      The last three times, Isaac had been asking about life outside the community. Could he play the video games he’d heard so much about? Had Dennis ever studied science? What was it like, not going to church?

      Each question made Rebecca’s stomach drop even further. What was he saying? Even worse, though, was the excitement on Isaac’s face when he asked them. He couldn’t get enough of hearing about the Englischer world from Dennis, and if the older man hadn’t had to leave to do his job, Isaac probably would have interrogated him all afternoon.

      Dear God, did . . . Isaac not want to be in the church anymore? The thought made Rebecca’s heart hurt. Another horrible thought hit her. Did he not want to be in the community anymore, either?

      At least Dennis had chided him for that last question, saying he might not be Amish, but he certainly went to church every Sunday with his wife and children. Without God, said Dennis sternly, his kindly face folding into creases, there was nothing. Isaac had looked suitably abashed.

      Well, he was leaving on rumspringa soon, so hopefully he’d quickly find out the life he was so eager to leave behind for an imagined freedom outside wasn’t so terrible, after all.

      And he was still here for now.

      It would all work out according to God’s plan, as always it did.

      Realizing just how hot and thirsty she was, Rebecca dusted off her skirts and turned to go claim her own glass of lemonade.

      Chapter Two: Three Months Ago

      Isaac Fisher paused outside the high school double doors. It had been an odd choice to spend his rumspringa at an Englischer school, and he knew it, but he wasn’t interested in parties or alcohol or dating one girl after another. Though some claimed that was exactly what he would find in high school, Isaac had enrolled because he wanted to study. Science, to be specific.

      His friend Dennis’s brother was a teacher of biology, and just the thought of it made all the hair on Isaac’s neck stand at attention. When Isaac glanced down at his hands, he couldn’t help but marvel at them. They were made up of skin and bones and blood that were in turn made up of smaller pieces called cells. He could think about that all day, except there was so much other stuff yet to be learned.

      And somewhere, someone had figured all this out! He wanted to be that person.

      Two girls walked past him, one blonde and the other Chinese. They were laughing, and as one, they turned to smile at him. Isaac swallowed and tugged at his collar. Would they stop to talk? Luckily, the girls headed past him into the building.

      Too bad the fancy blue jeans his host family had bought him were so ill-fitting. Between that, the T-shirts with catchy slogans and pictures, and the bright orange sneakers, Isaac felt like he was wearing a costume. Like he was playing the role of a regular boy.

      All of this was such a far cry from Lancaster County. And to think it was just a couple hours’ drive to the suburb of Philadelphia where he now lived! It might as well have been another world, and even after three months here, Isaac still felt like the alien from the science fiction movie his host family had played for him, about a being from another world who looked just like a human but couldn’t fit in no matter how hard it tried.

      Here in this strange, dark place full of metal and concrete blocks. They made him long for the open fields and sunlit blue skies of home. And here he’d thought he wanted to put all that behind him.

      Suddenly homesickness overcame him in a wave that nearly knocked him over. Images of Mamm with her trusty buttered rolls and sweet tea, Daed with his gruff but caring manner under his wide-brimmed hat. He hadn’t written back to their letters, nor called in weeks. They must be so worried, a voice in his head pointed out. He would fix that this evening when he got home.

      The warning bell rang, and Isaac jumped. No wonder it was so quiet out here. Everyone had already gone inside, and here he was, lollygagging.

      He rushed to join them. His first post-lunch class was Spanish 101, and he was

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