title: A Winter Surplus
author: Yoder, Sicily
description: Volume One of the Amish Blizzards short story series opens up with Amish schoolteacher, Abby Yoder, unpacking and settling into her new rented farmhouse. Suddenly, a knock on the front door brings an agitated visitor, Nathan Yoder, but Nathan has the right to be uneasy about Abby's arrival.  The last three teachers found love and didn't stay at teaching for a full year.
     Nathan has two special-needs children, and is a widower, so he needs a teacher that will stay put.
     Abby has taken the job to help her blind season, but she has to keep pushing her selfish needs back as she finds Nathan very intriguing. However, Nathan is battling his affection for Abby because he can't see God answering both of his prayers: the prayer for a good schoolteacher and a good wife.
     Will Abby stay focused as a schoolteacher, or will she let her heart slip away.  Will Nathan be able to help keep Abby work-centered, or will his manliness make him error?