Beverly Lewis could be Colorado’s most successful author. Her specialty? Bonnet-busters, as Amish romance novels are called — even though she’s not Amish. Since 1965, Lewis has lived in Colorado ...

In our brave, liberated new world, more American evangelical readers are seeking freedom in the Old Order. The land of the free, it turns out, has been rough on people seeking freedom, including ...

I was perusing a list of recently published books when I saw a title with the word “Amish” in it. Right … this was a thing I never thought about. I wondered what Amish fiction spinners were getting up ...

The appeal of Amish romance novels. Ignorance of evangelical “tribal discourse,” Weaver-Zercher argues, makes it difficult for outsiders to understand the appeal of the genre (a Business Week article ...

Fuller (The Proposal Plot) wraps up the Amish of Marigold series with a sweet fake-dating romance. Despite the unceasing efforts of Perry Bontrager’s mother to find him a wife, he insists he’s happy ...

Irvin (To Love and to Cherish) pairs two young Amish animal lovers in this spirited romance. Henrietta Miller has never dreamed of a life spent cleaning and cooking indoors; she’d prefer to care for ...

DENVER - The Christian book business, optimistic that a little literary escapism might be an antidote for readers in hard times, is turning to bonnets, buggies and bloodsuckers. Even as Christian ...

In the late 2000s, Mel Riegsecker spotted a trend in a newspaper article: Amish romance was one of the fastest growing novel genres. This fact spawned an idea, and how the Mennonite businessman could ...

DENVER -- The Christian book business, optimistic that a little literary escapism might be an antidote for readers in hard times, is turning to bonnets, buggies and bloodsuckers. Even as Christian ...