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Patrick E. CraigAuthor Bio:Best-selling author Patrick E. Craig is a lifelong writer and musician who left a successful songwriting and performance career in the music industry to follow Christ in 1984. He spent the next twenty-six years as a worship leader, seminar speaker and pastor in churches, and at retreats, seminars and conferences all across the Western United States. After ministering for a number of years in music and worship to a circuit of small churches in Northern California, he is now concentrating on writing and publishing both fiction and non-fiction books. In November, 2011, Patrick signed a three book deal with Harvest House Publishers to publish his "Apple Creek Dreams" series. The books are historical Amish fiction and the first book, "A Quilt for Jenna," was released February 1, 2013, followed by "The Road Home" on September 1, 2013. The third book, "Jenny's Choice", was released in February, 2014. He has also released "A Gettysburg Vignette," one of fourteen stories in Murray Pura's Civil War Series, "Cry of Freedom." Patrick has also self-published two kid's mystery books with a strong gospel message, "The Mystery of Ghost Dancer Ranch" and "The Lost Coast", part of his on-going "Adventures of Punkin and Boo" series. Patrick is represented by the Steve Laube Agency. |
Books by Author
 The Boy In Blue DenimImagine if Miss Marple were Amish! Jenny Hershberger returns to Apple Creek, Ohio, called by Detective Elbert Wainwright to help solve another cold case—a young Amish boy murdered in a deadly snowstorm and never identified. But as she digs into the case, she finds so many connections to her own life… |
 The Quilt That Knew• A young girl buried in the woods for forty years... • A desperate killer loose in the village... • A mysterious quilt and a golden ring... Jenny Hershberger returns to Apple Creek, Ohio, the village where she grew up... only this is not a happy homecoming. She's been called upon to solve a horrible… |
 The Mennonite QueenIsabella, Princess of Poland, is raised to a life of great wealth and leisure in the Polish Royal Court, destined to marry a king. But fate or divine providence intervenes when she meets Johan Hirschberg, a young Anabaptist who works in her father s stable. This chance meeting leads the young couple… |
 The Road Home (Apple Creek Dreams Series)Jenny Springer is the local historian for the Amish community in Apple Creek, Ohio. When Jenny was a child, Jerusha Hershberger Springer rescued her from a terrible snowstorm, and when no trace of Jenny’s parents could be found, the Springer family adopted her. Since then, the burning desire in Jenny’s… |
 A Quilt for Jenna (Apple Creek Dreams Series)Jerusha Springer has spent months making the most beautiful quilt anyone in Apple Creek, Ohio has ever seen, and she knows it is going to take first prize at the Quilt Fair in Dalton. The prize money will be her ticket out of the Amish way of life—away from the memories of Jenna, the daughter she… |
 Jenny's Choice (Apple Creek Dreams Series)Jonathan and Jenny Hershberger are happily settled in Paradise, Pennsylvania on the farm Jenny inherited from her grandfather. But when Jonathan disappears in a terrible boating accident, Jenny and her young daughter, Rachel, return home to Apple Creek, Ohio to live with her adoptive parents, Reuben… |
 The Amish PrincessOpahtuhwe, the White Deer, is the beautiful daughter of Wingenund, the most powerful chief of the Delaware tribe. She is revered by her people a true Indian princess. Everything changes when the murderous Delaware renegade known as Scar brings three Amish prisoners to the Delaware camp. Jonathan and… |
 The Amish Heiress (The Paradise Chronicles) (Volume 1)Rachel Hershberger’s life in Paradise, Pennsylvania is far from happy. Her papa struggles with a terrible event from the past, and his emotional instability has created an irreparable breach between them. Rachel’s one desire is to leave the Amish way of life and Paradise forever. Then her prayers… |