USA TODAY bestselling author Kathleen Fuller's Matched and Married is a sweet, inspirational romance filled with small-town matchmaking, reluctant love, and the struggle between family expectations and the desires of the heart.
"This charming outing, filled as it is with forgiveness, redemption, and new beginnings, will delight Fuller's fans." --Publishers Weekly
Neither Margaret nor Owen has any interest in getting married. But in the small Amish town of Birch Creek, where marriage is on everyone's mind, their plans don't stand a chance.
Margaret Yoder can't seem to catch a break. Even though she's dedicated to her Amish faith, her wild rumspringa won't stay in the past, and her mother keeps pressuring her to get married. To placate her mother and get away from former "friends," she decides to return to Birch Creek to visit family--and pretend to find a husband.
Like Margaret, Owen Bontrager isn't looking for a spouse, something that's hard to avoid in Birch Creek, where an ad for brides in the local paper has brought a swarm of single women to the thriving town. When he meets Margaret in an unexpected way, they discover they have more in common than they ever expected. In some ways, they are a perfect match.
Margaret struggles to keep her goal of avoiding romance in order to focus on being a faithful member of the Amish church, and it doesn't help that she finds Owen intriguing. Knowing they don't have a future together; she returns home and gives in to her mother's insistence that she get married.
Can Margaret betray her feelings for Owen and become a dutiful daughter and wife to the man of her mother's choosing? Or will Owen find a way to free Margaret of her past by giving her the future they both are surprised to find they desire?
A tender story of forgiveness, faith, and unexpected romance, Matched and Married is the second book in the Amish Mail-Order Bride series. Continue the series with A Double Dose of Love and Love in Plain Sight.
