The Inn at Hidden Run
(Tree of Life #1)
Paperback – audiobook, ebook
May 1, 2019
A Father-Daughter Genealogy Team Link Present to Past on Family Trees
Meri’s family has been producing doctors for so many generations that no one remembers why, so when she flunks out of medical school, she runs as far from her parents as she can get. In the small mountain town of Canyon Mines, Colorado, she takes a job at the Inn at Hidden Run B&B. And waits. It’s only a matter of time.
What she doesn’t count on is genealogist Jillian Parisi-Duffy and her father, Nolan, having her back when it takes everything she has not to bolt again but to stay and face the truth that only unfolding her family’s history will reveal. While Nolan works on keeping Meri calm—and in town—Jillian pulls out of her gems of information she doesn’t know she has and arranges the puzzle pieces.
But none of that changes the fact that Meri’s family is closing in to haul her back to her “real” life. When their arrival inflames tensions and Meri finally does bolt, Nolan and Jillian may be out of time.
The Inn at Hidden Run is the first book in the Tree of Life series. Readers will come back to backdrop of a lovely mountain town of Canyon Mines again and again to explore and celebrate unforgettable family stories that inspire them to connect with their own family histories and unique faith journeys.
My thoughts: Olivia Newport is a hit or miss author with me and at first with THE INN AT HIDDEN RUN I was hopelessly confused. I kept with it though, and the characters began to make sense and the dual-time period stories each became engaging in their own rights and I was anxious to see how they tied together.
The father daughter team might a nice dual. I loved how they worked together. The dad was a busybody, but oh so lovable, and who can't relate to the search for the perfect cup?
Meri was the focus and it was interesting to see how the layers were peeled off and how her life story tied in with a horrible yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, TN just a few years after the Civil War.
While parts of the book were skim-inducing, the majority was well-told and engaging. If you like dual time periods and finding roots, you will love THE INN AT HIDDEN RUN. Recommended.
I was given a copy free. All opinions are my own.
Meri’s family has been producing doctors for so many generations that no one remembers why, so when she flunks out of medical school, she runs as far from her parents as she can get. In the small mountain town of Canyon Mines, Colorado, she takes a job at the Inn at Hidden Run B&B. And waits. It’s only a matter of time.
What she doesn’t count on is genealogist Jillian Parisi-Duffy and her father, Nolan, having her back when it takes everything she has not to bolt again but to stay and face the truth that only unfolding her family’s history will reveal. While Nolan works on keeping Meri calm—and in town—Jillian pulls out of her gems of information she doesn’t know she has and arranges the puzzle pieces.
But none of that changes the fact that Meri’s family is closing in to haul her back to her “real” life. When their arrival inflames tensions and Meri finally does bolt, Nolan and Jillian may be out of time.
The Inn at Hidden Run is the first book in the Tree of Life series. Readers will come back to backdrop of a lovely mountain town of Canyon Mines again and again to explore and celebrate unforgettable family stories that inspire them to connect with their own family histories and unique faith journeys.
My thoughts: Olivia Newport is a hit or miss author with me and at first with THE INN AT HIDDEN RUN I was hopelessly confused. I kept with it though, and the characters began to make sense and the dual-time period stories each became engaging in their own rights and I was anxious to see how they tied together.
The father daughter team might a nice dual. I loved how they worked together. The dad was a busybody, but oh so lovable, and who can't relate to the search for the perfect cup?
Meri was the focus and it was interesting to see how the layers were peeled off and how her life story tied in with a horrible yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, TN just a few years after the Civil War.
While parts of the book were skim-inducing, the majority was well-told and engaging. If you like dual time periods and finding roots, you will love THE INN AT HIDDEN RUN. Recommended.
I was given a copy free. All opinions are my own.
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About the Author
Olivia Newport’s novels twist through time to find where faith and passions meet. Her husband and twentysomething children provide welcome distraction from the people stomping through her head on their way into her books. She chases joy in stunning Colorado at the foot of the Rockies, where daylilies grow as tall as she is.
More from Olivia
Of Family Lines and Family Lore
I suppose it all started in a cemetery.
Once, while a group of relatives were visiting a cemetery, one of my cousins and I wandered off and looked at all sorts of graves, speculating about the names we read and the lives they represented. We were duly scolded both for separating from our families, which caused some consternation, and for being disrespectful—though I think the second accusation was a false one!
Just because we were young children didn’t mean we were disrespecting the dead. Quite the opposite. We were respecting lives long forgotten with our curiosity about who they were and what legacies they left.
These days a lot of people are interested in genealogy. Entire TV series spin around the theme, and DNA kits show up in Christmas stockings. Lost branches of family trees find the main trunk—sometimes with big surprises.
My new Tree of Life series is set in the backdrop of a lovely Colorado mountain town I hope you’ll want to visit often, where a father-daughter genealogy team link present to past on family trees and characters learn about who they are, where they come from, and their unique faith journeys as they discover their own Tree of Life.
It all starts with The Inn at Hidden Run. When Meri arrives in Canyon Mines because she wants to run away from her family, true answers come from understanding the past that generations have forgotten—the accounts from another time and place no longer handed down but that still form the backbone of the family’s story.
What’s the backbone of your family’s history? How is it shaping your own future?
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Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Olivia is giving away a grand prize of a $25 Amazon gift card and a copy of The Inn at Hidden Run!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter. https://promosimple.com/ps/e1c1/the-inn-at-hidden-run-celebration-tour-giveaway
2 comments:
Sounds like a great book.
Thank you for sharing your book with us. I always look forward to finding out about another great read.
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