The Stranger Gott Sent

A widowed mother-to-be asked Gott for a sign. She never expected Him to send her a stranger in the mud.

Jodie Schwartz has learned to endure sorrow quietly.Widowed, seven months pregnant, and left with the burden of her late husband’s unpaid debts, she has become the subject of whispers in the Amish community of Crystal Lake.Once, she dreamed of a tender marriage and a peaceful home.Now she is simply trying to protect her unborn child and hold together the life Isaac left in pieces.

Then, on a moonless October night, Jodie hears a cry beyond the fence line—and finds an injured Amish stranger lying unconscious in the ditch.

Lloyd Kauffman wakes beneath the Graber roof with no memory, no clear past, and a grief he cannot yet explain.As he heals, he finds unexpected purpose on Jodie’s struggling farm and unexpected peace in her gentle strength.What begins as kindness soon becomes something far more dangerous to both their hearts.

But Lloyd’s forgotten life is not finished with him.

When a determined woman from Houndsville arrives claiming Lloyd once promised to marry her, Jodie is forced to face a painful truth: the man who has brought light back into her world may already belong to someone else.

And as old debts, hidden sacrifices, and the judgment of the community threaten to divide them, Jodie and Lloyd must decide whether love can take root where grief, guilt, and doubt have already left their mark.

Set among the quiet hills of Ohio Amish country, Still Waters at Crystal Lake is a tender, faith-filled Amish romance about forgiveness, second chances, and the unexpected ways Gott can turn a broken heart into a home.