Her Fear

May 15, 2018
When a pregnant, young Amish woman is betrayed by her boyfriend and banished from her abusive family, she's sent to an uncle far away, where she meets an EMT who makes her believe in a better future.Sadie Detweiler discovers she's pregnant and expects to marry the man who's been courting her, but instead he cruelly rejects her. Then her father takes her lover's side: "He's got no reason to lie, girl"--and turns his back on Sadie: "I'm not your father. You are nothing to me." She is stunned and humiliated when he sends her away to stay with relatives. Just a few short weeks after she arrives in Kentucky, her grandmother Verba Stauffer dies, and she meets Noah, a kind Amish EMT. Noah knows something isn't right in the Stauffer household. The family is secretive and suspicious, and at first he thinks perhaps they're abusing the quiet, pretty Sadie. Soon it's discovered that Verba was poisoned, and rumors fly that the Stauffers produce and distribute moonshine. Noah likes Sadie, but her family might be dangerous, and he's not sure how to react to her pregnancy. Yet the more he learns about her, the more he realizes how horribly she's been treated, especially by the men in her life. Author Gray continues her Amish of Hart County romantic suspense series, which ambles through a story that's mildly entertaining but lacks depth and edge. The father is villainous, the hero is saintly, the uncle is cartoonishly ineffective and hand-wringing about it. And while the plot offers Sadie the divine gift of a safe new life, it shrugs over the poisoning deaths of four other people.An oddly disconnected, lightly inspiring, and un-suspenseful inspirational romantic suspense novel.

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June 1, 2018

When pregnant, unmarried Amish girl Sadie Detweiler is sent to stay with chilly relatives, she is befriended by outgoing Amish EMT Noah Freeman after he visits her ailing Aunt Verba. Several suspicious deaths make Noah protective of Sadie, but does this romance have a future? With a 100,000-copy first printing.

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June 1, 2018

When Sadie, a young Amish woman, becomes pregnant out of wedlock, her parents send her to live with relatives in Kentucky. As she gains independence, she also begins to view her parents' controlling actions as unfair and even brutal. Complicating the situation, her Kentucky family is involved in moonshining, and several people, including Sadie's aunt, have recently died from tainted alcohol. An Amish EMT has also taken a liking to Sadie, but she's afraid that he will abandon her like the baby's father did if he learns about her pregnancy. The family's secrets not only threaten that relationship but may also tear the entire clan apart. Following His Guilt, this fourth book in Gray's Kentucky-based series is a sure bet for Amish fiction fans, but the novel is somewhat predicable, wraps up too neatly, and contains inconsistencies in its characterizations. Both the setting and some of the characters could have been more developed. However, the inclusion of an Amish EMT does offer an interesting take on alternative occupations to farming and carpentry. VERDICT Purchase only where there is demand. [See Prepub Alert, 1/22/18.]--Margaret Bentley, Shiawassee Dist. Lib., Owosso, MI

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