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A Hidden Truth (2012)

by Judith McCoy Miller(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0764210009 (ISBN13: 9780764210006)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Bethany House Publishers

series

Home to Amana

review 1: Dovie is really struggling with her mother's death, she misses her mother and wonders if she really knew her or if she had ever really been happy. When her father gets transferred to Texas she decides to ask to see if she can go and visit her mom's family back in the Amana Colonies. Will her father allow her to go back there? Will they even let her come to visit being her mom and her cousin had not talked in years?Dovie not only struggles to find out who her mother really was, how she was raised. But she has to adjust the way she lives her life as life in the Amana Colonies are very different than her life in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dovie finds her new life both challenging as well as full-filling. She has some big lessons to learn about her mom, colony life, love and family. Ka... morerlina loves working with her father and the sheep in East Amana. She struggles when a new shephard comes to help her father with the sheep. Will the new shephard work out? Will her cousin come and like being in East? Karlina struggles within her own life as she does not fit the "normal" woman in East, she does not like to do the "woman" duties expected of her.Will the cousin's find happiness? Will they workout the mysteries that each seems to be experiencing with the men that they have started having feelings for?I really felt this book was well written. It leads you through lives that have not always gone the way the people wanted them to turn out. It is well written, leading you through the book- wanting more.I recieved this book for free from Bethany House. All that they asked me was to post a book review, weather that be a good or bad review. The opinions here are solely my own.
review 2: I really enjoyed this book. There was mystery and romance and a lot of information on the Amish, a closed community in the Amana Colonies. The story basically revolved around two women, one who lived in the community and one who was visiting the other womans home. One is really confused about her feelings regarding the new shepherd assigned to work on her fathers far. The other is visiting her mothers old friend, where her mother lived prior to marrying her father. She wants to find out why her mother lived her life unhappy and melancholy. There is a big mystery though when she arrives she finds that no one will tell her what happened to her mother that her family decided to leave the colony. She is constantly on the hunt and is also very confused as she begins to have feelings for one of the young men who lives in the colony. Will she stay and marry him if it is allowed or will she find out the information she came for and leave to follow her father to Texas.The information on the book I found here on good reads was this:In the closed communities of the Amana Colonies, hidden truths are about to change everything for two young women....East Amana, Iowa1892When Karlina Richter discovers that a new shepherd will be sent to her village, she fears she'll no longer be allowed to help her father with the sheep. She'll be relegated back to kitchen work, stuck inside all day. Her fears increase when the new shepherd shows little interest in the flock--or in divulging why he's suddenly been sent to East. Is he keeping secrets that will impact Karlina's family?Dovie Cates visits the Amana Colonies to learn more about the place where her mother grew up. But when Dovie begins to ask questions about her mother's past, no one seems willing to reveal anything, so she decides to take matters into her own hands. Will the answers she finds spell disaster for her future plans and the longings of her heart? less

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