Beauty in Hiding
About the Book Beauty in Hiding
Book: Beauty in Hiding
Author: Robin Patchen
Genre: Christian romantic suspense
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Book 2 in the Beauty in Flight series:
Harper’s second chance at life will become a second stint in prison if anyone connects those two dead men to her.
Nutfield, New Hampshire, is as good a place as any to hide from the murderer Harper left behind in Maryland. All she has to do is lie low and make enough money to keep herself and Red alive until she can figure out who her enemies are.
Jack Rossi isn’t sure what to make of his beautiful new tenant and her confused grandfather. Something’s not right, but the love he sees between them and the care she takes of the old man convinces Jack they’re trustworthy. As drawn as he is to Harper, she’s his tenant, so she’s off limits.
Derrick, Harper’s ex-boyfriend, and Red’s grandson needs to find his grandfather and get his hands on the old man’s money before Derrick ends up with a bullet in the skull. And when he gets his hands on Harper, she’ll be sorry for what she’s put him through.
Harper and Jack grow closer, but so do her enemies. If Harper can’t trust Jack with the truth, she may lose more than just this glimpse of true love. She may lose her freedom—or her life.
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My thoughts:
Book 2: Beauty in Hiding
After finding two men dead in Red’s living room Harper ran away with Red. In book two we find them heading to a new town and a new life. Harper shall pose as Red’s granddaughter and hope that his memory will not cause too many problems. He’s getting more and more forgetful. She can only hope she cleared the antifreeze from his system before it did permanent damage. And oh how she wishes she’d grabbed a few more things before fleeing. Like the picture of his dear wife.
They find a rental house in Nutfield, New Hampshire. Their landlord lives next door and is extremely helpful. Maybe too helpful. It’s going to be very difficult to keep him at arm’s length away. Jack Rossi is kind and caring and everything Harper doesn’t need right now. All men are out to get something from her and she can’t trust anyone but herself.
Now she has to find a job to make money. They can’t risk digging into Red’s accounts and being found. That would lead Derrick or the people he owes money to straight to them in too short order. Harper will do whatever it takes to keep Red safe.
As Harper settles Red into a new house Jack keeps giving her help she doesn’t know she needed. He sets them up for adult daycare at a center he volunteers at. And then he feeds them and gives them furnishings. Just as Harper begins to let her guard down things go south fast.
Harper is found out. She just knows it. Red ends up in the hospital and Harper has ex-law enforcement knowing her life story. But can she protect Red? If she goes back to Maryland what will happen to him? Will Derrick succeed him killing Red? How much does Red remember of those last 24 hours before they fled? Should Harper have told him everything? Can Harper ever truly trust again?
Another great book. I’ve tried not to share the super great spoilers that I want to add in here. Definitely get this series and enjoy the books for yourself. You will not be sorry.
I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.
About the Author of Beauty in Hiding
Aside from her family and her Savior, Robin Patchen has two loves—writing and traveling. If she could combine them, she’d spend a lot of time sitting in front of her laptop at sidewalk cafes and ski lodges and beachside burger joints. She’d visit every place in the entire world—twice, if possible—and craft stories and tell people about her Savior. Alas, time is too short and money is too scarce for Robin to traipse all over the globe, even if her husband and kids wanted to go with her. So she stays in Oklahoma, shares the Good News when she can, and writes to illustrate the unending grace of God through the power and magic of a story.
More from Robin
I was raised in a Christian home. Our parents took my sister, my brother, and me to church every Sunday. They taught us right from wrong, but eventually, kids have to make their own choices. In my case, I chose wrong for a long time.
Don’t misunderstand: I was always a pretty nice person. I wasn’t a thief, and I didn’t kill anybody, but I made a lot of bad decisions. Sinful decisions. I discovered that one bad choice often led to the next and the next until I was trapped in a life of my own making with no idea how to get out.
But God… two of my favorite words in the English language.
God had a different plan, and He pulled me out of the muck and changed my life. He showed me that I was not the person I’d been acting like. He showed me who I was, and He taught me to walk in the truth of my identity.
Harper Cloud isn’t me, not at all. First of all, she is tall and blond and drop-dead gorgeous. More than that, her choices are nothing like mine was. But she’s in the same boat I was. Thanks to a series of bad decisions, Harper was in a hole, and she didn’t know how to get herself out of it. She used drugs to quiet the condemning voices and told herself lies to make herself feel better. Someday, she told herself, she’d get her life together enough to go home to her parents. Because she couldn’t go when she was a mess. She couldn’t go until she’d done something they could be proud of.
Thanks to a bad choice in boyfriend, Harper not only didn’t go home, but she also ended up in prison.
Harper’s story begins two years after she’s released. It’s the story of a woman desperate to be free of her past, clinging to hope when there’s every reason to despair, and desperate to believe what she’s been told about this Savior, Jesus Christ.
Harper will learn about love and redemption and salvation in the course of the three books that make up the Beauty in Flight series. That is if she can survive the danger that seems to follow her wherever she goes.
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