Sarah Price

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Commendation Quotes: "All the appeal of a classic love story--caught between perception and truth, affectionand duty, choice and expectation, doubt and faith, regret and hope."--Olivia Newport, author of "Wonderful Lonesome" and "Meek and Mild" "Sarah Price's delightful adaptation of "Persuasion" will thrill Jane Austenfans and lovers of Amish fiction alike."--Jennifer Beckstrand, author of "Huckleberry Hill""Timeless as the classic itself, Sarah Price's retelling of "Persuasion" by Jane Austenwill have your heart skipping beats."--Sue Laitinen, Destination AmishBiographical Note: Sarah Price's family emigrated from Europe in 1705, settling in Pennsylvania as part of the area's first wave of Mennonite families. At nineteen, she befriended an Amish family and lived on their farm. Twenty-five years later she splits her time between her family in the New York City metro area and a home that she shares with an Amish woman in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she retreats to reflect and write. As a masterful storyteller, Sarah Price prides herself on presenting an authentic Amish experience for her readers. Publisher Marketing: At twenty-five years of age, Anna Eicher has never married. When she was seventeen, her parents convinced her to break off her courtship with Freman Whittmore, the youngest son in the Whittmore family and her best friend. Afterward, a distraught Freman moved away from Lancaster County. Eight years later Freman has returned to visit his sister, who is renting the Eichers' house for the winter. Now the owner of the largest dairy farm in his church district, Freman has neither married--nor forgiven Anna. Although he begins courting someone else, Anna hopes to convince him that she has never stopped loving him. Will Freman be persuaded to forgive Anna and open his heart again? Review Citations: Romantic Times 06/01/2015 pg. 52 (EAN 9781629982397, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Price, Sarah The author of more than two dozen novels, Sarah Price brings her twenty-five years of experience of living among the Amish to her books, many of which have been Amazon Top 100 Bestsellers. Her recent title First Impressions: An Amish Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice debuted in the ECPA Christian Fiction Top 25 Bestseller List a month after publication. Price has family roots in the same region of rural Pennsylvania where many of her stories are set; the Preiss family emigrated from Europe in 1705 and settled in the state along with the area s first wave of Mennonites. Born into a Mennonite family, Price has firsthand experience with the culture and religion of both the Mennonites and the Amish. Her grandparents first introduced her to the world of the Amish in 1978, and since then Price has visited and even lived among different Amish communities in Lancaster County.