title: The Keeper: A Poignant Story of Love and Redemption
author:  Kay Chandler 
description: Kay Chandler is an award-winning author, loving wife, story-teller, caring mother, grand- mother to 23 story-loving kids, history junkie, and passionate follower of Jesus Christ. Kays style of writing is known to be addictive and impossible to put down. You have been warned. Find other hard-to-put-down books from Kay Chandler at KayChandlerBooks.com
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  Could she guide them from sorrow to joy?
  
  
  When tragedy tears an Amish family apart...  
  Can her love bring them back together?
  
  
  Becca Graber has made it her mission to get the silent boy in her new
  classroom to speak again. But when she meets the boy’s grieving _vadder_ ,
  widowed firefighter Jesse King, Becca realizes that two hearts need mending.
  As Becca and Jesse try to break through to Sam, will they also find a way to
  reach each other?
  
  
  **Colorado Amish Courtships**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Sam, I have something special for you.”
  
  
  Becca rummaged inside one of her burlap bags before pulling out the pile of
  books the little boy had abandoned at the library.
  
  
  Sam made a happy sound in the back of his throat and took the books onto his
  lap.
  
  
  “And this is for you.” She pulled out the book Jesse had been perusing and
  held it up for his inspection.
  
  
  Jesse went very still. He wasn’t sure if he should be happy or sad. He’d
  wanted to check out the book but he didn’t want it forced down his 