• 1¾ cups sugar
• ½ cup milk
• 5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
Bring to a light simmer, stirring constantly for one minute.
Remove from heat and stir in:
• ½ cup peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• 3 cups rolled oats (or quick-cooking oatmeal)
Mix quickly and drop by teaspoons onto waxed paper. Let the cookies cool outside the fridge for one hour. Makes about 3 dozen turtles.
For my mother,
Susan Lauer Noonan,
Who managed a large family with poise and good humor
And kept us all close in spirit.
We love you.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
With the publication of this third Seasons of Lancaster novel, I am grateful to the many fans who have expressed the joy they have received from these books and encouragement to keep the King family going. Thank you, dear readers, for brightening my day with your warm reception of my characters and their stories.
No one can surpass Dr. Violet Dutcher’s eye for story detail, Amish detail, and the nuances of Amish living. Your corrections gave this book authenticity, and your personal anecdotes inspired me to let Jonah have his story. I can’t thank you enough. I would sign up for one of your classes in a heartbeat!
To my editor, Junessa Viloria, I can’t tell you how fortunate I am to have found an editor who seems to love and understand these characters as much as I do. You have a wonderful sense of how to mingle authentic truths and entertaining fiction. I hope that you and I will have many more adventures together in Halfway, Pennsylvania.
Many thanks to the excellent staff at Ballantine Books, who took great care with this book in every stage. Denki!
BY ROSALIND LAUER
A Simple Winter
A Simple Spring
A Simple Autumn
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ROSALIND LAUER grew up in a large family in Maryland and began visiting Lancaster County’s Amish community as a child. She attended Wagner College in New York City and worked as an editor for Simon & Schuster and Harlequin Books. She currently lives with her family in Oregon, where she writes in the shade of some towering two-hundred-year-old Douglas fir trees.
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