Ours for a Season Book Review

I found a new release book on the shelf when I was at the library so I checked it out.  Ours for a Season: A Novel by Kim Vogel Sawyer was a stand alone novel and not part of a series.  I was excited to get started on another great but by this author that I have enjoyed.

An Old Order Mennonite couple's vows and beliefs are challenged in this stirring contemporary novel for fans of Cindy Woodsmall or Shelley Shepherd Gray.

Anthony and Marty Hirschler are part of an Old Order Mennonite community in Pine Hill, Indiana. The couple has grown apart since a doctor confirmed they would never have children. Marty longs to escape the tight-knit area where large families are valued, and the opportunity to do so arises when her childhood friend, Brooke Spalding, resurfaces with the wild idea of rebuilding a ghost town into a resort community. Brooke hires Anthony to help with the construction, drawing the Hirschlers away from Indiana and into her plan, and then finds herself diagnosed with cancer. Moral complications with Brooke's vision for a casino as part of the resort and the discovery of a runaway teenager hiding on the property open up a world neither the Hirschlers nor Brooke had considered before. Will they be able to overcome their challenges and differences to help the ones among them hurting the most?

This book is about the Old Order Mennonite neighborhood in Indiana that has a small construction company made up Mennonite workers.  Anthony runs the crew and has 5 men working for him.  He gets contacted by a friend of his wife that wants to help rebuild an old ghost town.  Marty, his wife, can't have children and wants to escape the small town and sees this as the perfect chance.  Anthony and Marty go with a few other people from the crew and leave a few people left to continue the business in Indiana.  After they get there, Marty finds out that her friend Brooke is dealing with horrible illness and is going to need her help to get through it.  All of the people in the ghost town are going to figure out how to become their own family in order to get through all the challenges.  Check out how they pull together and the changes that happen in their little community in this book.  I hope that you check out this book and enjoy it as much as I have!!