num_pages: 336
description: Bestselling Amish fiction author Jerry S. Eicher (nearly half a million copies sold) returns with the first book in another of his delightful and compelling series. Here is the touching story of an awakening young Amish girl Katie Raber who finds she wants more from life than to be known as simply Emma Rabers daughter. Emma has refused to remarry since Katies daett died soon after she was born. And in an effort to keep Katie home Emma has forbidden her from participating in the rumspringa tradition. When widower Jesse Mast calls for Mamm s hand in marriage Katie hopes to move into a new phase of life and leave the old Emma Rabers daughter behind. But Emma is having none of it and Katie must consider abandoning all hope of ever changing her mamm s bitterness or of ever having popular Ben Yoder notice her. Out of sheer frustration she begins attending nearby Mennonite youth gatherings. Sparks fly when Jesses children object fiercely to the attentions their daett is paying to Emma Raber. And widowed Ruth Hochstetler makes her own move for Jesse Masts hand. Book one in the Emma Rabers Daughter series.
language: English
title: Katie Opens Her Heart
publisher: Harvest House Publishers