The Daughters of Caleb Bender series by Dale Cramer is based on the daughters of the author’s own great grandfather who was the elder statesman of a colony of Old Order Amish who emigrated to Mexico in the 1920s when the state of Ohio passed laws requiring the Amish to send their children to public schools. Dale’s father was born in Mexico so he has a strong vested interest in these stories.
Multiple daughters mean multiple possibilities for romance. In the first volume, Paradise Valley, sixteen-year-old Rachel, not old enough for courting, falls in love with Jake before her father moves his family far away to Paradise Valley. Her sister Emma fears that the truth about her hasty marriage will lead to humiliation.(Click here to read my review of volume 1.)
