http://www.ValentineDmitriev.com Stolen Bride: Kidnapped Amish Girl Finds Freedom, Love in New World begins with The People of Blessing, a small Old Order Amish community who lead a simple, orderly existence based on hard work, worship and humility.
In Stolen Bride Naomi Knapp, a beautiful Amish woman, has been chosen against her will by the aging, widowed bishop to be his new bride. To prevent this marriage, Jacob, the Bishop’s son who had left the community to become a star model, abducts Naomi, taking her to a world beyond her imagination.
“Education gives women as well as men greater freedom to make better and more desirable choices,” says Dmitriev, “For women, especially, an education that prepares them for a marketable skill, gives them the freedom, for example, of leaving a life that is holding them back to a life of freedom and endless opportunity. This was true for Naomi Knapp who shined once she was taken from the old world community so she could flourish in her new world.”
Dmitriev published Lori, Runaway Wife, a romance novel about Lori Becker who is a nurse in a Queens’s hospital and a battered wife. Professionally skilled, but intimidated by her brutal spouse, Lori lives in the fantasy world of romance mysteries, idolizing their handsome author, Ian Damion. She remains trapped until the birth of Ian’s son sets her free.
Born in Shanghai, China in 1918, Dmitriev moved with her family to Vancouver, Canada, and as an adult settled in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Dmitriev was a pioneer in infant learning and early intervention for special needs children and received national recognition for her Model Preschool Program for young children with Down Syndrome and other disabilities.
Over a period of 15 years she traveled widely giving lectures and workshops in 40 cities in America and 11 foreign countries including Australia, England, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Russia and Spain.
Dmitriev has written numerous professional articles, seven books on parenting, education and child development, and two other romance novels, Wedding Belle and Five Magic Words.
The author spent 16 months writing and researching Stolen Bride. Part of her research including visiting Amish communities in the Lancaster, PA, area and taking photographs of Amish lifestyle and the surrounding landscape.
Valentine Dmitriev graduated from high school at age 15, earned a BA from the University of Washington at age 19, and subsequently earned her master’s in education and PhD from the University of Washington.
About the Author
Born in China and raised in Canada, Valentine Dmitriev settled in Seattle, Washington and spent 32 years working with normally developing youngsters as well as with the disabled and mentally impaired infants and preschool youngsters. A pioneer in special education, she published five books before taking an early retirement and moving to a retirement cottage in New Jersey where she has published two novels in the past two years. http://www.ValentineDmitriev.com
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