Christmas in July Giveaway!

It's Christmas in July! Thirty sweet Christmas books are free right now to download, including my Amish Christmas book, I Hear Christmas, valued at $2.99. 

Works on any device. 

But hurry, offer ends July 31st. Please share!

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Copperheads, Tornadoes, and Floods, Oh My!

This week has been so crazy! So I was walking my dog inside a fenced-in area in our backyard the other night and I just happened to have him on a leash. The only reason I had him on a leash is because he’s kind of squirrely and hard to catch and around bedtime he likes to hide under the bed in protest. So I threw a leash on him and out the door we went. Sometimes I’ll let him drag his leash in the pen and if I need to catch him I can always step on the end of the leash but I just happened to still have a hold on him and I was shining the light right in front of his path when I saw a Copperhead still as a stone with its head up looking at us. I was able to pull the dog back away from the most dangerous snake in our area before anyone got hurt. God was looking out for me that night. I certainly don’t have an extra $30,000.00 to pay for anti-venom and even a small bite could potentially kill an eleven pound dog. I’ll be wearing my boots outside after dark from now on. I’m used to checking all around me for bears when I go outside but looking for something small slithering on the ground is new to me. I’ve even found myself shining my light in the trees above me at times wondering if there’s a mountain lion up there, but snakes just don’t seem as likely to me somehow. And people wonder why I stay inside all the time.

Fast forward a day or two and my whole family is sitting in the cellar waiting out the tornado warnings. My daughter and her dog are shaking in terror. My dog fears nothing except being alone so he's running in circles. My husband and I sing to pass the time and lighten the mood. Singing in a cellar is a lot like singing in the shower. The sound bounces off the walls and makes everyone sound like a pop star. Pretty soon there’s a knock on the metal door above us and the neighbor and her little girl join us. It looks like a river flowing through the yard and down the road. They’ve since confirmed 12 tornadoes that day, but luckily our neighborhood was spared. The road, however, wasn’t. The creeks got up and my mother-in-law was unable to come home from work that night and had to spend the night in town. My father-in-law and some neighbors had to drive tractors down to the creek the next morning and fix the huge holes in the road. Everyone was taking pictures to show their boss why they couldn’t get to work on time. We’ve got a few rock piles in the yard that weren’t there before and the run-off is still making its way down the road but no damage done. All a part of living in the Ozarks.

Swan Creek Series Starters: An Amish Romance Collection Hits Number 1

Thank you to all my readers for making my newest book, Swan Creek Series Starters: An Amish Romance Collection, a Amazon bestselling book in the Christian Fiction Collections and Anthologies category. I know you're going to enjoy the 100 pages of bonus material where I discuss all my Swan Creek stories and what I've learned from my research of the Swiss Amish. 

If you haven't downloaded your copy yet you can do so for only $0.99 at the link below.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PHKLQ5M

Thank you for reading and God bless!

An Amish Romance Collection Like You've Never Seen

Celebrating the release of my newest Amish romance collection today! 

This book, value priced at only $0.99 for Amazon Kindle, features 7 full books plus 100 pages bonus material about the Amish and the making of Swan Creek Settlement.

Take a guided journey with me through the Swan Creek community and learn interesting facts about the Amish. Find out why Amish women wear a kapp, how bishops are elected, where the Amish came from, what's the difference between the Amish and Mennonites, and more in this delightful and informative Amish romance collection.

Get your copy today for only $0.99 or read free with Kindle Unlimited.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PHKLQ5M

An Amish Heart by Tattie Maggard and Jacqueline Hopper

An Amish Heart

I am so excited to share this new release with you. An Amish Heart is the first book my friend Jacqueline Hopper and I have written together and I know it won't be the last. We've already started on a new one this week. Like all of my Amish books, this is a Swan Creek story, and I have a feeling the characters we created in this book are going to pop up again and again.

Sometimes you have no choice but to go home again.

When Susie Yutzy hung up her kapp in pursuit of nursing scrubs, she believed she was done with Swan Creek forever. All it took was a lost little girl and a storm to haul her back into the arms of her ex-beau, putting her career and a certain handsome doctor's interest on hold.
But will Susie's revived Amish heart destroy her Englisher dreams?

You can purchase An Amish Heart for Amazon Kindle for only $0.99 for a limited time.
An Amish Heart link.