Join the fun. You are invited to the wedding of John Lapp and Nurse Hal. Family and friends have gathered to cook, clean and plan. Men have put up a tent for the guests, so put on your bonnet or felt hat, hitch up your buggy and take a ride by scenic pastures and rolling hills to Wickenburg, Iowa. Take a seat on a bench next to Hal's folks. They will be glad to explain the ceremony, because they came armed with Aunt Tootie's book on Amish customs. You will find a few surprises when little ...

Fay Risner in Book two of her Nurse Hal Amish series links the modern world to the timeless Amish way of life when Nurse Hallie Lindstrom falls in love with Amish widower John Lapp. This is a fascinating look at two differing cultures set in an intricate and richly detailed tapestry of a traditional Amish setting in southern Iowa. The Amish simple way of life based on faith, convictions and honesty is entwined in this love story between an English woman and an Amish man. Hallie Lindstrom, ...

Sheriff Stringbean Hooper's job description for sheriff is relaxing while he watches the town out his office window. He leans back in his chair with his feet on his desk and takes it easy. All that changes when the town doctor, Doc Strummer, reports his wife has disappeared. Hooper finds himself in the middle of a crime and a family feud between cattle baron, Mac Sullivan, and the cattle baron's son-in-law, Dr. Strummer. Hooper's only backups are a nervous pig farmer that works as his part...

Home Health Nurse Hal Lindstrom is assigned Amish widower John Lapp. She offers to stay with his children while he is in the hospital. Fifteen year old Emma takes care of the household. Her two younger brothers are handling the dairy operation. Hal soon realizes that Emma is suffering from depression. Noah is withdrawn, and Daniel is so troubled he sleepwalks outside, looking for his dead mother. Drawn to this needy family, Hal discovers they have a secret swept under the proverbial Amish ...

This book gives you two stories in one. First, a stranger has been seen driving around the Amish Community. He sits so far back on the seat no one has been able to get a good look at him. Everyone is on edge. The stranger seems to be looking for someone, but who?While women worked in the kitchen after the church service, they discussed the stranger. The women decided it would be a good idea to take their children to school so the children wouldn't be out on the country roads alone w...

Eli Yutzy and Joy Petermeyer want to get married. They didn't realize how much work they had ahead of them. Uncle Jim's hundred-year-old barn needs to be cleaned and painted. Joy has to sew her wedding dress, but she can't sew. She is supposed to cook Eli a meal, but she can't cook. Eli asks his father to come to the wedding and he refuses. If Enos Yutzy won't come then Eli's two brothers and their families won't come. Eli is worried when Daniel Lapp comes home, Joy and he might rekindle t...

Home Health Nurse Hal Lindstrom is assigned Amish widower John Lapp. She offers to stay with his children while he is in the hospital. Fifteen year old Emma takes care of the household. Her two younger brothers are handling the dairy operation. Hal soon realizes that Emma suffers from depression. Noah is withdrawn, and Daniel is so troubled he sleepwalks outside, looking for his dead mother. Drawn to this needy family, Hal discovers they have a family secret swept under their proverbial Am...

Wedgewood, Minnesota Police Detective Renee Brown has a murder case to solve with the help of rookie police officer Jeff Briceson. When Alice Hutson dies in her country home, Renee and Briceson take over the investigation to help the county sheriff department. At first glance since Alice Hutson is in bed with her pistol in her hand, an educated guess by Briceson was suicide. Alice's son, Bill Hutson, is adamant that his mother would never kill herself. Mabel Baxter, a neighbor across the r...

This book is the sequel to My Memories Of Animals Large And Small. Fay Risner brings the readers up to date with her stories. Not only true stories about sheep and goats, also about chickens, dogs, cats, and wildlife that has roamed around her place. These stories are sometimes scary like when banging noises in the barn are a mystery and other times humorous or sad like how she lost her favorite sheepdog.

Fay Risner has been a fan of Dr. James Herriot's ever since she read his Yorkshire Dales, England series. For over forty-five years, Fay jotted down notes about tending her livestock. Some of the stories in her book are heartwarming. Others are sad, and still others are humorous.

From the start of his journey from Bloomfield, Eli worried about what his homecoming was going to be like. He wouldn't have bothered to come back to the Amish community he ran away from if he hadn't found out his mother was dying. She sent word by one of his sisters that Mamm wanted to see him. Eli did miss his siblings and felt like most of them would welcome him home. What lay ahead of him after his mother died was what worried him. His cold-hearted father considered everything around hi...

Gracie Evans wasn't the only one upset when the Locked Rock, Iowa newspaper editor wantedto compete with big city papers by starting a gossip column. Appearing in the gossip columnwasn't the way Locked Rock citizens wanted to find themselves in print. That didn't stop thenewspaper from selling more copies, because everyone had to find out if they were in thegossip column each week. Shortly after two women were mentioned in the gossip columnthey were murde...