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    Spirited Child: Lancaster County Amish Grace Series, #3
    Spirited Child: Lancaster County Amish Grace Series, #3
    Spirited Child: Lancaster County Amish Grace Series, #3
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    Spirited Child: Lancaster County Amish Grace Series, #3

    By Rebecca Price

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    NEW RELEASE - MUST READ FOR AMISH BOOK LOVERS!

    When Katie Adams' newborn is diagnosed with a severe birth defect that threatens her life and future, will the couple's marriage, their place in the community, or their relationship with God survive this trying news?

    Newlyweds Katie and Scott Adams have bridged culture, lifestyle, and religion in order to build a future together. United now in faith and marriage, the couple's lives are finally blossoming, and they even have a new baby on the way. But when Katie's newborn is diagnosed with a severe birth defect that threatens her life and future, will the couple's marriage, their place in the community, or their relationship with God survive this trying news?

    Find out in Spirited Child, the final book of the Lancaster County Amish Grace collection. While this is the third book in the series, each of these books tells a complete story and can stand alone.

    If you LOVE Amish Fiction, Scroll Up and GRAB YOUR COPY TODAY!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGlobal Grafx Press
    Release dateJun 17, 2015
    ISBN9781513068442
    Spirited Child: Lancaster County Amish Grace Series, #3

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      Spirited Child - Rebecca Price

      Spirited Child

      Lancaster County Amish Grace – Book 3

      by

      Rebecca Price

      This is Book 3 of the Lancaster County Amish Grace series. While it is the third book in the series, it stands as a complete story on its own. If you enjoy this book, please look over the other Christian books from Global Grafx Press, and other great books from Rebecca Price.

      Published by Global Grafx Press, LLC. © 2015

      The Pennsylvania Dutch used in this manuscript is taken from the Revised Pennsylvania German Dictionary: English to Pennsylvania Dutch (1991) by C. Richard Beam, Brookshire Publications, Inc. Lancaster, PA 17603

      The Bible quotations used in this manuscript are either taken from the King James Bible or the English Standard Bible.

      Copyright © 2015 by Rebecca Price

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including scanning, photocopying, or otherwise without prior written permission of the copyright holder, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Spirited Child

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      LANCASTER AMISH SECRETS

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Chapter 1

      Scott!

      Ow!

      Husband! I need you – now!

      Katie Adams stood in the kitchen of her home, clutching her swollen abdomen as contractions knifed through her.

      Ah! I think I’m – in labor, Scott. I’ve had an ache in my back all day long and it just – ohhhh! It just hit now. Katie grimaced as she felt the cramps of menstruation multiplied by ten.

      Scott had just come downstairs from washing up after working in his carpentry shop. As he saw Katie’s pain, his eyes widened. Katie! What about the midwife? Do you think we’ll have time to get her?

      "We’d better! I don’t want to have this boppli on my own." Katie closed her eyes and inhaled, trying to stay in control of the contractions. It would have to be the one day her mamm had left to help her cousins with their laundry. Katie wasn’t even due for another two weeks, not that the baby seemed to care much for the Englischer doctor’s time schedule.

      Stay in here. I’ll hitch Blue to the buggy and come back for you. What was that? Katie’s water had just broken and a soft, splashing sound had gotten his attention.

      My water just broke. Go. I’ll be fine. Katie waited until the contraction eased, then grabbed several old cloths from the laundry basket. Dropping them to the wet spot, she swiped them back and forth with her foot, holding onto the table with one hand.

      Scott came running back into the kitchen with a fine sheen of sweat covering his face – it was still summer, hot and humid. OK, I have the horse hitched to the buggy and your bag in the back. Let’s go.

      You’re not putting me in that buggy. Go get the midwife.

      But, I can’t leave you alone. What if the baby comes?

      I’m not having my baby in a buggy.

      At the rate you’re going, you’ll be having it by yourself if I leave.

      I have plenty of time. First labors always take longer, Katie said, repeating her mamm’s wisdom.

      Then you can get in the buggy. Tension lined Scott’s voice. Normally a calm man, he felt more nervous than he’d felt in his life, save for the day that a desperate man had taken Katie and her scholars hostage in her school.

      The baby’s almost a month early.

      Two weeks.

      We’re going to a hospital. Scott, born an Englischer, had already been nervous about a home birth, and the baby coming early was clearly too much for him.

      Seeing no use in arguing, Katie let Scott grab the emergency bag he’d kept in the kitchen and then leaned on him heavily so that she could step up into the buggy. The ride there was an agonizing, rattling sway that made her want to curse Scott and God equally. Hopefully, both would forgive her.

      They rode to their neighbor Annie’s house, whose husband ran a local carpentry and had a phone. There, Scott called 911.

      Annie took one look at Katie, pale and furious in the back of the buggy and helped her down and into her house. You can lie down on my bed, she said. How far apart are the contractions?

      Far enough that Scott could have left me in my own bed and gotten the midwife! Katie snapped.

      Annie laughed. It’s always hardest with the first child.

      The bedroom was up a flight of stairs. So after some deliberation they decided it would be less stressful for Katie to settle in on the couch. There Katie did her best to breathe through the pain. The contractions were coming closer and closer, and she prayed that she wouldn’t have this child in Annie’s living room.

      God must have heard her prayer, because she soon heard the wail of an ambulance, and the EMTs quickly whisked her and Scott to the hospital.

      How are you doing? one of the EMTs asked as she monitored Katie’s progress in the back of the ambulance. She was a tall, light brown woman with a calm face and short, manicured fingernails. How far apart are your contractions?

      About every six minutes, Scott said as he walked beside the gurney. Her water broke just after she had the first one. That was about forty five minutes ago.

      That’s fine. We should have you to the hospital and settled in well before you have the baby. Do you know if it’s a boy or a girl?

      No. Katie smiled. Whatever the baby is, we will be grateful.

      The baby is two weeks early, Scott cut in. Will that be a problem? Do you think he’s ill? Or she’s ill?

      We don’t know, the EMT said, but we will do everything we can to ensure that your baby is healthy. Sometimes they’re just a bit too excited to get into the world.

      The EMT was as good as her word, and soon they were in a room in the maternity ward at the hospital.

      Katie’s labor went on far into the night. It was early the next morning when she gave birth to a tiny girl, weighing 5 pounds, two ounces.

      Scott, we’re parents! Finally! Oh, hello, sweet Rebekah! We finally get to meet you! Katie’s voice was tired, but she was excited as she held her precious newborn for the first time. Gazing down at the little round face, she fell in love with the tiny snub nose and the blinking eyes that gazed back at her.

      Scott held back sudden tears. It was hard to see who Rebekah resembled, but he thought he could see a little of Katie in her mouth and in the set of her chin. Wiping the tears off his cheeks, he caressed the baby’s downy-soft cheek with one finger.

      Okay, we need to take this little sweetheart and check on her vitals. We’ll bring her back in a few minutes, never fear. The smiling nurse gently took Rebekah and, laying her on the warmed blanket, began to check her over. After putting a disposable diaper on her and wrapping her in a receiving blanket, she slipped a pink cap over her head. She’ll lose more body heat through the top of her head, so we outfit all our newborns with caps. She’ll be much more comfortable this way. Here she is, daddy!

      Scott instinctively curled his arms around his baby daughter, smiling as he held her for the first time. "Hey, little one! I’m your daed! He held his forefinger against Rebekah’s curved ones, as she opened them to grip his. Then she began searching, with her mouth and head, for the source of sustenance she would eat for the next several months. Whoa, I think that’s your mamm’s department there. Katie, I think she’s hungry."

      "Let’s get her on your breast, then we’ll

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