The Match Maker Who Wouldn't Love (Hearts of Lancaster Series Book 1)

She’s Lancaster County’s most successful matchmaker. There’s just one love story she refuses to allow. Her own.

Malinda Ebersol has an eye for what other people need. She notices the widow no one else thinks to feed. She leaves warm bread on porches before dawn and slips away before a soul can thank her. And when two people belong together, Malinda has a way of making sure they find each other.

But when it comes to her own heart, Malinda stopped believing in happy endings fifteen years ago.

Because fifteen years ago, Malinda waited at a fence in her blue dress for a man who never came, while the whole community watched and pitied. She swore that day she would never again wait to be chosen. She would be the one who chooses — for everyone but herself.

Then Samuel Beiler, the quiet carpenter who has loved her in silence for years, finally crosses the yard. He sees straight past her sharp tongue to the tender, frightened woman beneath — and this time, he refuses to look away.

But Malinda's certainty is about to cost her everything. One reckless match. A grieving widow shamed before all her neighbors. A cruel word she can never take back — and the patient man who saw her true, at last turning away.

Can a woman who has guarded her heart for fifteen years learn to open it… before she loses the one person who ever loved what lay beneath?

A wholesome Amish romance of second chances, quiet faith, and hard-won grace. Clean and sweet, with a tender happily-ever-after. For readers of Beverly Lewis and Wanda Brunstetter.

The Matchmaker Who Wouldn't Love — Book One of the Heart of Lancaster County series