title: Thankful: Return to Sugarcreek, Book Two
author:  Shelley Shepard Gray 
description: A sweet, straightforward story about how love can be tested by family, faith, and personal insecurity. Enjoyable and heartwarming. (USA Today)<br /><br />Shelley Shepard Gray brings readers into the Amish world with style and grace. (Romantic Times BOOKclub - 4 stars)
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  **ACKNOWLEGMENTS**
  
  
  BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE AT MILKWEED: Ben Barnhart, Jennifer Harmening, Ethan
  Rutherford, Kate Strickland, Patrick Thomas, Allison Wigen, and of course
  Emilie Buchwald, who started it all.
  
  
    
  
  A special thanks to Daniel Slager, my editor, for his intelligence,
  understanding, and keen eye.
  
  
    
  
  Thanks to PJ Mark, my agent, for his friendship and support.
  
  
    
  
  I will be forever indebted to Ralph Vicinanza and will miss his wisdom and
  laughter.
  
  
    
  
  Thanks to Elly Heuring and Amy Watson.
  
  
    
  
  Above all, thanks to Susan, to whom this novel is dedicated.
  
  
    
  
  A slightly altered version of the first three chapters appeared in _The North
  American Review._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Also by Larry Watson**
  
  
  _In a Dark Time_  
  _Leaving Dakota_  
  _Montana 1948_  
  _Justice_  
  _White Crosses_  
  _Laura_  
  _Orchard_  
  _Sundown, Yellow Moon_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  LARRY WATSON is the author of _Montana 1948, Justice, White Crosses, Orchard,_
  and several other novels. He is the recipient of the 