Kelly Long has always been a favorite Amish fiction
author but her latest release, The Amish
Bride of Ice Mountain (Zebra Books) delivers a whole new level of
inspiration and romance. Kelly melds the
different worlds of the Englischers and the Amish in a new and unexpected way. Kelly’s writing is heavy on the romance, and
she keeps her main characters, Mary and Jude, exciting while they wait for the
proper time to consummate their marriage.
This sizzling romantic book is definitely for adults.
Mary is a young, naive Amish woman living on Ice Mountain
in Appalachia and Jude is an Englischer professor who has come to Ice Mountain
to further his study of the Amish. While
on Ice Mountain, Jude meets Mary and he becomes a little too close to her. Mary’s brother saw them kissing and when
Mary’s dad finds out, he grabs his gun and decides a wedding must take place to
protect his daughter’s reputation.
Jude has no desire to marry Mary just because he kissed her, but he doesn’t want to
get shot either. He hatches a plan
whereby he will marry but not consummate the marriage to Mary. They will go back to his home in Atlanta for a
while, then Mary can go back to Ice Mountain after things calm down. Then they can get an annulment and go their
separate ways.
Jude’s plan doesn’t have a chance of working with Mary
dead set on making Jude fall in love with her.
Mary wants to create a real marriage between her and Jude. There seems to be numerous obstacles in the
way of either Mary or Jude getting their way in this forced marriage.
The Amish Bride of
Ice Mountain is simply captivating.
The story nicely contrasts the lifestyle of wealthy Englischers in
Atlanta with the rural Appalachian Amish where indoor plumbing is considered a privilege. Loving counsel from Mary’s Grossmuder May
just may be the best advice given, “I say your job is to turn this wedding into
a marriage … and I don’t mean only the bedding; that’s the least of it in some
ways. A marriage is about the physical
body, eh? But also the spirit, the mind,
and the heart.”
Kelly Long will continue this series with book two, An Amish Man of Ice Mountain, to be
published next May, 2015. The Amish Bride of Ice Mountain will be
published November 4, 2014.
Wow. very interesting.
ReplyDeleteElana, it was a very interesting book, spicy but not over the top or uncomfortable. Kelly Long's Amish novels are all spicy, so if you like one, you will like all her books.
ReplyDeleteI read the prevew of the book and like it a lot.!.
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