A Promise Is A Promise

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 Noah is withdrawn, and Daniel is so troubled he sleepwalks outside, looking for his dead mother.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 rag rug. The more she tries to help them the deeper she is sucked into the family's problem. Finally, Emma makes Hal promise to stop trying to unravel the family's tragic secret before it's too late. Hal agrees. When her future happiness is at stake, she wishes she hadn't but a promise is a promise.

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 Noah is withdrawn, and Daniel is so troubled he sleepwalks outside, looking for his dead mother.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 rag rug. The more she tries to help them the deeper she is sucked into the family's problem. Finally, Emma makes Hal promise to stop trying to unravel the family's tragic secret before it's too late. Hal agrees. When her future happiness is at stake, she wishes she hadn't but a promise is a promise.

Hello! I'm Fay Risner. I go by booksbyfay online. I enjoy writing about Amish life in the Nurse Hal Among The Amish series. As well as those books, I write a historical Amazing Gracie mystery series set in Iowa and Stringbean Hooper westerns. Also, I've written two books about Alzheimer's disease. I worked for many years in a nursing home and helped my mother care for my father which gave me insight about what caregivers deal with. A romance such as Christmas With Hover Hill thrown into the mixture of books is a good way to switch genres. When an idea comes to me, I write the story. Changing genres gives me flexibility as a writer. All my books are designed to offer some humor along with the serious moments. I write in 12 font to make my books reader friendly, and all my stories are suitable for any age group. My husband and I live on an acreage with chickens, rabbits, cats and through the summer months a herd of goats. We enjoy raising a large garden and flowers. For fun, we go fishing in the summer and read a lot of books in the winter.