A midwife who has never lost a baby. A shepherd who has kept to his ridge since his father died. One Christmas Eve crossing of a mountain pass that could kill them both.

Anna Miller, Young Amish Midwife. At fifteen, Anna watched winter fever take her mother, the valley’s midwife, while no one came. The next morning she took down her mother’s kit bag and taught herself the work. Seven babies in three winters, and she has not lost one. Then, on the day before Christmas, with a record storm breaking over the valley, word comes that Martha Yoder’s first baby is turned wrong. Martha’s cabin lies beyond the Devil’s Slide, a pass that turns to black glass when the ice comes. Anna sets out alone.

Levi Stoltzfus, Solitary Shepherd. Four years ago, Levi found his father dead against a rock wall after a late spring storm, a living lamb tucked inside the coat he had given away. Since then Levi has kept to his flock and his silence, sure that caring too much is what gets a man killed. When a signal fire flares on the Yoder ridge on Christmas Eve, he leaves his flock in the fold, plants himself at the trailhead in the stubborn midwife’s path, and tells her they go together or neither of them goes.

Roped together with six feet of frozen hemp, they climb through whiteout, shelled ice and a sheer rock pitch, with a half-frozen lamb tucked inside Anna’s coat. In a limestone cave, in the cold blue light of dusk, they speak the griefs neither has ever said aloud. But surviving the mountain is only the beginning. If Anna lets herself need someone, she fears losing the independence that has carried her since her mother died. If Levi opens the gate he has kept shut for four years, he risks the very softness he believes cost his father his life.

On the holiest night of the year, a shepherd keeps a different kind of watch.

– clean closed-door Amish Christmas romance: no on-page intimacy

– Christmas Eve rescue: a midwife and a shepherd race a record blizzard over a deadly pass to reach a mother in breech labor

– forced proximity: roped together on the ice and sheltering side by side in a limestone cave

– opposites attract: a fiercely independent midwife who smells of lye and lavender, and a man of few words who reads the mountain like a book

– wounded hearts: a daughter who lost her mother and a son who lost his father, each still keeping the vow that loss taught them

– a rescued lamb: a half-frozen lamb carried over the mountain against Anna’s heart

– a Christmas birth: a candle in a cabin window, a long night of labor, and a child who arrives in the first hour of Christmas morning

– slow-burn Amish courtship: from Second Christmas to spring lambing, with an epilogue one Christmas later

– faith and healing: a Bishop’s blessing at the edge of the storm and the second chapter of Luke read aloud on Christmas morning, never preachy

Perfect for fans of heartfelt Amish Christmas romance, snowbound survival adventure, and quiet heroes who say more with ten words than most men say with a hundred.

Pick up Book 1 of A Sweet Amish Christmas today; every book brings a new couple and a complete story.

Heat Level: Closed Door (no on-page intimacy)

Tone: Heart-warming · Tender · Hopeful

Series Type: Book 1 of 5 in the A Sweet Amish Christmas series, each book reads as a standalone

Ending: HEA, Happily Ever After

POV: Dual POV · Third Person

Content Notes: off-page deaths of a mother from fever and a father in a storm (in the past), grief, a difficult breech birth described without graphic detail, a broken leg, life-threatening winter peril

Inspirational Theme: Christian themes of faith, grief and healing, with the Christmas story naturally woven, never preachy