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The Christmas Remedy

Hardcover, ebook

October 23, 2018

by Cindy Woodsmall (Author), Erin Woodsmall (Author)

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: WaterBrook
• ISBN-13: 978-0735291041

When an Old Order Amish woman takes a job at a small-town pharmacy struggling to survive in a world of "big box" stores, her motive is to help her Plain community. But the advent of the holiday season brings an unusual mystery to the surface--and possibly love.

Twenty-four-year-old Holly Zook lives a unique life for a young Amish woman. Years ago, her bishop allowed her to continue her education and become the lead technician for Greene's Pharmacy, an old-timey drugstore that looks out for the Amish community--a group largely without secure healthcare plans. She knows she can't marry and hold onto her professional job. She's Amish, and she can only have one or the other, so she spurns love and works toward addressing treatable diseases--like the one that claimed her father's life.

As long as Holly continues to avoid Joshua Smucker, the one man who draws her like a warm hearth in winter, she should be fine. When something unexpected threatens Greene's Pharmacy, Holly and Joshua must work together to unravel what's happened and find the "missing" patient before the Board of Pharmacy shuts them down. As the snows of December arrive, with Christmas in the air, will Holly succumb to the generous spirit of the season?

My thoughts: THE CHRISTMAS REMEDY is the first collaboration of Cindy Woodsmall and her daughter-in-law, Erin, although it is the third collaboration published.  I like they wrote an Amish Christmas book together. Unlike Ms. Cindy Woodsmall's other Amish Christmas novellas this one has more than hero/heroine's point of view. There is also a touch of mystery (who is sabatoging the pharmacy and why?) And the druggist's son's point of view. There is also a hint of a secondary romance forming as the story unfolds.

I greatly enjoyed THE CHRISTMAS REMEDY and recommend it as a not to be missed Christmas read with a nontraditional Amish lady, a sweet hero raising baby Easter chicks (I researched something there--did you know they lay precolored eggs? Neither did I. Romance books can be educational! Check it out: https://www.fresheggsdaily.com/2012/02/rainbow-of-egg-colors.html)

I did guess who the bad guy was and why he was doing it, but how was yet to be discovered and I didn't know how he'd be caught.  I really enjoyed this story, and now is a great time to preorder it since you'll get another not to be missed book with it. I love the cover of this book, too - an old timey pharmacy on the cover.  

Great book. 

I was given a copy free. All opinions are my own.