The Gardener's Will
She can keep her good name, or she can keep the greenhouse. She cannot keep both.
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The Gardener's Will
She can keep her good name, or she can keep the greenhouse. She cannot keep both.
For three years, Miriam Beiler was an old man's eyes. She counted the flats. She read the seed orders out loud. She learned every bench in five glass houses until she could walk them in the dark.
Nobody in Willow Bend thought much about it. A girl of nineteen, being good to a blind neighbor. That was all it was.
Then Ephraim Troyer dies, and his will is read out in a front room full of people, and the whole district finds out what he thought it was.
Now there is a grandson down from Ohio who has never set foot in those houses. There are forty thousand plants with seven weeks to live and a season nobody has the standing to sell. And there is a girl who has spent her whole life being easy to overlook, holding something she never asked for and cannot put down.
Miriam can keep her good name, or she can keep the greenhouse. She is beginning to understand that she cannot have both.
The Gardener's Will is a sweet, closed-door Amish romance about grief, work, and the slow business of being known.
Closed door. No cliffhangers. A warm, satisfying happily-ever-after, guaranteed.
A Willow Bend Romance, Book 4. Each novel stands on its own.
Free Prequel — Willow Bend Romance
The Farmer's Match
A stubborn young farmer and a girl who wouldn't leave him be.
Amos Beiler is twenty-three and carrying a farm he never asked for. Since his father died, the land, the debts, and a mother and two young ones all rest on his shoulders — and he's decided he has no business wanting anything for himself until it's all set right. He tells himself so every single day.
Then Lydia Riehl comes to Willow Bend for the harvest season. She's quiet, steady, and far too good with a spooked animal, a worn gate latch, and a grieving family that has forgotten how to laugh. She sees straight through Amos's gruffness to the tired, honest man underneath — and slowly, a farm that wants three men starts to feel like less of a burden when she's standing in it.
But Lydia is only in Willow Bend until first frost. There's a kinder, easier man courting her in the open, the whole district reckons it a sensible match, and Amos is too proud and too weighed-down to say the thing he most needs to say.
Some things you only lose because you were too busy being noble to reach for them.
A sweet, closed-door Amish romance — the free prequel to the Willow Bend Romance series, and the story of how the Beiler family began.
The Collection
The Collected Novels
Stories of faith, family, and the simple beauty of a life well-lived.
The Horseman's Promise
He can gentle any horse in Willow Bend. It's people he's never learned to hold onto.
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The Widower's Bargain
He offered her a home, his name, and half of everything he owned. He told her to her face he would never love her.
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The Carpenter's Second Chance
A schoolteacher, a carpenter, and the second chance neither of them saw coming.
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The Author
Meet Susanna
Susanna Mast writes sweet and clean romance — tender, faith-filled love stories set in the close-knit community of Willow Bend, where life moves a little slower and love is always worth the wait.
Her debut novel, The Carpenter's Second Chance, opens the Willow Bend Romance series: the story of a schoolteacher, a carpenter who comes home to make things right, and the second chance neither of them saw coming. Expect gentle romance, real heart, and a hard-won happily-ever-after you can trust — warm, wholesome, and always clean.
If you love heartfelt tales of hope, home, faith, and second chances, you're in the right place. Follow along for new releases and sneak peeks 💛📖
Susanna
A Letter from Willow Bend
A note from my window
Reflections on the season, pressed botanicals from the garden, and early glimpses of the next book. Sent with care.