The Fallen Oak: A Clean Amish Enemies to Lovers Romance (Brides of Sycamore Bend) by Shel Mabel

Their fathers haven’t spoken in years. Now the bishop says they have to fix it themselves. When a storm brings down the old oak tree straddling the property line between the Lengacher and Hostettler farms, both families claim the timber. The fathers—stubborn, proud, and nursing a grudge that started with a survey stake a generation ago—refuse to settle it. Bishop Harlan has had enough. He tells them to work it out on their own. And somehow, it falls to their eldest children to negotiate. Patience Lengacher has run her father’s household since her mother passed. She is practical, sharp-witted, and tired of a feud she didn’t start. Abram Hostettler is earnest, even-tempered, and loyal to a father who makes loyalty difficult. He has known since he was nineteen that Patience was the one. He is twenty-four now and running out of reasons to pretend otherwise. Walking the disputed boundary together, researching old survey records, and arguing over a pile of timber they both know doesn’t really matter—Patience and Abram stop pretending. Read more