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    Love In Willow Creek
    Love In Willow Creek
    Love In Willow Creek
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    Love In Willow Creek

    By Stacy Boswell

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    Eva Smith was the socially awkward girl who believed the outsiders were godless and had no place in their community, thanks to her Nan’s upbringing. But when Andrew McMillan walked into the small town of Willow Creek he never expected to find a butterfly amongst the moths. When he first laid eyes on Eva Smith, his intentions were all but honorable, but as he got to know her, he realized that she was more than just a woman, she was the woman he’d been waiting for all his life.
    With the great divide between their lives and cultures, there was no knowing how or if their new found friendship would bloom into something bigger…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPettway Publishing
    Release dateOct 22, 2017
    ISBN9781386904885
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      Love In Willow Creek - Stacy Boswell

      Chapter 1

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      Eva sat quietly with her hands folded on her lap. The breeze was bitingly cold, but refreshing at the same time. Winter was starting to set in with occasional snowfall that covered the landscape in white cotton-like patches, just until the sun rose and melted the snow away. But today was one of her least favourite days, despite the beauty that lay stretched out before her.

      Watching the smaller children play near the stream that ran past her house, she once again pondered on her own childhood, of which she remembered very little. Most of her memories were blurred patched hidden somewhere in the corners of her mind.  She couldn’t recall ever playing with the other children, the little she could recollect was her sitting on a chair, must like this one, under the big oak tree that stood outside her Nan’s house yearning to be invited along with the other children. She so often wanted to join in on the fun, which is what one would expect from a seven or eight year old, but she couldn’t dare. Her Nan believed that idle play only created lazy bones and left place for the devil to seduce and lure you away from the Lord’s purpose.  So she spent most of her childhood pretending to be oblivious to the other children but what the elders and mostly her Nan, never knew was how much pain she had suffered when no one was watching.  As they all grew older and they moved into their early teens, the children who she so often envied ended up being real monsters, they would tease and make fun of her in such cunning ways that none of the elders would have believed her if she ever did complain. They were quite capable of getting away with murder, had the opportunity presented itself to them.  Her envy soon turned to loathing and she started to realize that her Nan was right all along and by the time she turned eighteen she had a good clear understanding of just how conceited people could be, even the ones in the close knit community of Willow Creek. 

      The monotonous ringing of the town bell drew her out of her reverie, it was its usual announcement to let everyone know that the tourists were arriving and Eva quickly fled into her home and shut the door to hide from prying eyes. Over the years, their small community has become the laughing stock of civilisation.  It started off with the idea to introduce the Amish ways to the outside world, but it soon turned into a commercialized pastime where outsiders get to stare and point fingers at their cotton dresses and supposedly funny bonnets.  Her Nan always told her never to allow the godless into her home and warned her that these fools, who think they have their way paved to heaven by paying large amounts towards tithes simply to line their pastor’s pockets, were blinded by their need to be socially accepted. And it was all so obvious.

      She stood at the window and peeked through a small opening in the curtain. How could people be so shallow and revel in the trivial things that will inevitably cost them their salvation. But more so, she simply couldn’t comprehend how the elders could allow this.

      A loud knock on her door caught her off guard and startled her; no one should

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