Land of Silence by Tessa Afshar
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Land of Silence by Tessa Afshar


This is a fictional story of Bibical facts,The woman who touched the hem of Jesus Robe for healing.

Tessa has woven a fictional story giving this woman a voice and a name,Elianna who has such guilt when her only brother dies while in her care from a bee sting. She cannot forgive herself and it weaves through many years of her life.
She seems to always put others before herself,helping always helping.
She and Ethan were bethrothed from their youth but as she became the age to marry, one thing or another always stayed it. Until the day she told him she could not marry and he was free to marry another. It broke her heart to do this but as usual she was thinking of others and not herself.

Tessa does an outstanding job of telling about the area where this family lives and of all the troubles that beset them. I got this book from @Crazy4fiction,thank you.


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The Saddle Maker's Son by Kelly Irvin


The Saddlemaker's son by Kelly Irvin

this is the 3rd book in a series -tales of three daughters,
One daughter left the community with her beau to marry and become Mennonites.
Rebekah comes from a large family and she has many chores when her Mam dies in childbirth and she must step in to help. She is beginning to think , she will never have a beau or get married, there is not enough time in the days.

Tobias Byler is a new man to the community and when he meets Rebekah and sees how hard she works and her work in the community ,he knows she is one to get to know more about.

A brother and sister runaways fill out the story as Tobias and Rebekah help them when they learn they are trying to find their father, sent to this country by their grandmother.


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