Her Fear

Her Fear by Shelley Shepard Gray                  Audio Book:  6 hours, 35 minutes      Hardback Book: 288 pages                   

Sadie Detweiler is banished from her home community in Ohio to go live with relatives she has never met in an Amish community in Hart County, Kentucky.   Reason being, young Sadie is pregnant and unmarried, though she gave herself to the man who had been courting her.   We are not talking Amish Girls Gone Wild During Rumspringa, either.    We are talking sneaking out at night and meeting in her beau’s barn  - you get the idea.    It seems her boyfriend was being considered for a position of importance in their district church  and having a blot like pre-marital sex and a baby on the way would blow his ministerial ambitions.   The Amish!  you say, turns out there are are good and bad souls within all sects, including the Amish.    The rogue lies and swears to his own parents and Sadie’s parents that he is MOST DEFINETLY NOT the father, totally ruining Sadie’s reputation in the community and worse yet, her own parents believed  her boyfriend and banished her!    Her father even tells her she is NO LONGER HIS DAUGHTER!   OMgosh!    This is a really good story, I enjoyed it from beginning to end.   If you like tales of the Amish, which I do,  (must be those Mennonite ancestors)  you will truly enjoy this story.    Lots happens!    It is a good study in how opinionated and biased folks can be sometimes, even in strict religious sectors and how sometimes it takes awful things happening in our lives to move us to where we need to be.   Worthy read that will bring out a lot of emotions in the reader.   I definetly recommend this one.