About the Book:
A suspenseful tale of a young Amish woman who is forced to move to a new town to escape a threatening stalker
After a stalker went too far, Hannah Hilty and her family had no choice but to leave the bustling Amish community where she grew up. Now she's getting a fresh start in Hart County, Kentucky...if only she wasn't too scared to take it. Hannah has become afraid to trust anyone-even Isaac, the friendly Amish man who lives next door. She wonders if she'll ever return to the trusting, easy-going woman she once was.
For Isaac Troyer, the beautiful girl he teasingly called "The Recluse" confuses him like no other. When he learns of her past, he knows he's misjudged her. However, he also understands the importance of being grateful for God's gifts, and wonders if they will ever have anything in common. But as Hannah and Isaac slowly grow closer, they realize that there's always more to someone than meets the eye.
Just as Hannah is finally settling into her new life, and perhaps finding a new love, more secrets are revealed and tragedy strikes. Now Hannah must decide if she should run again or dare to fight for the future she has found in Hart County.
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My Thoughts:
“I intend to be very careful and very vigilant. I promise.” (p. 209)
Sometimes being careful and
vigilant isn’t enough to prevent evil from knocking on your front door. Actually, evil rarely, if ever, is that
polite. Hannah Hilty and her entire
family become a people of fear rather than faith when they flee a stalker
intent upon stealing everything from them to satisfy a very malicious
appetite.
What this stalker, or any other
evil, discounted was God’s protective guiding hand at work in the lives of the
one person he was intent upon pursuing and wooing. Although Hannah bowed to
fear initially, as did her parents, none of them could fathom what God had
prepared for them even as they tried to run from the problems that were intent
to pursue and paralyze them.
I tend to be pretty picky when it
comes to Amish stories, but I have learned that I can depend on Shelly Shepard
Gray to deliver a story that is filled with intrigue, truth and grace. Her
Secret speaks to the universal need we all seek – the need to feel safe and
secure in our own home. For the Hilty
family, that security has been ripped from them, and their attempts to fight
seem meager at best. God is always in the details of our lives, and this story
is no exception. Gray weaved layer upon
layer of details together and forms a community of faith that digs deep into
God’s truth to find strength to stand against the evil that has burst into
their midst.
I truly enjoyed this novel, and I
am happy to recommend it to everyone!
You will come away with renewed faith in God’s strength to show us the
way we need to go – even when we decide to run the opposite direction.
About the Author:
Shelley Shepard Gray is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, a finalist for the American Christian Fiction Writers prestigious Carol Award, and a two-time HOLT Medallion winner. She lives in southern Ohio, where she writes full-time, bakes too much, and can often be found walking her dachshunds on her town's bike trail.
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