A Father-Daughter Genealogy Team Link Present to Past on Family Tree
Meri flunks out of medical school—and runs from her parents. Genealogist Jillian Parisi-Duffy’s digging traces the family long tradition of doctors to an ancestor saved during a yellow fever outbreak in Memphis in 1878. As Meri’s family closes in, Jillian gets the final puzzle pieces in place just in time for them all to learn the truth. 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.
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About the Author:
Olivia Newport’s novels twist through time to find where faith and passions meet. Her husband and two twenty-something 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.Find out more about her on her website
My Thoughts:
I enjoy studying genealogy, so this book was very interesting for me as one of the main characters, Jillian's job is digging into family trees. Not only does she find ancestors for people, but she has the keen ability to discover more than just the basic roots of their family tree. Her insight into the past helps them discover who they are, and often why they do the things they do. It’s pretty interesting. Her father, a lawyer, just has a way with people. He could work as a therapist with his listening skills and ability to encourage people and understand them. He had a knack for getting them talking and gathering information Jillian could use to help find out about their past. They made a great team!
Take the main character, Meri, for instance, she shows up in town, apply's for a job at the Inn owned by Jillian's best friend Nia. Immediately, taken with her, she becomes Nia's "project" of sorts. Nia can tell something about Meri is not right, and enlists the help of her friends Jillian and Nolan to uncover what Meri is hiding and help her through it. The book is mainly about them uncovering her story, as it weaves back and forth from past to present telling the tale that will provide answers into the current situation.
Meri is running away from home, trying to escape her family and figure herself out. What she wants versus the expectations and pressures her family is putting on her to become what they think she should be. Eliza, the character from the past, is overcoming her family's social expectations by helping out with a yellow fever outbreak in Memphis instead of running away from town like all the other wealthy socialites have done.
I wouldn’t say it was a really fast read, instead I would say it was interesting and I enjoyed it. The characters, the history (especially since I live in TN), and background although fictitious could have really happened. The author incorporated truth of the time period and happenings as it may have happened then.
On a side note, I enjoyed Jillian's fixation with coffee, her favorite mugs, the ice cream shop in town, and other sweet but insignificant little details the author included. I am looking forward to other books that will be released in this series.
I was blessed with a copy of this book courtesy of Celebrate Lit, the publisher, and author. I was not asked to review this but positively and all opinions are my own
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?***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
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Congrats on this tour and thank for the opportunity to read about another great book out there to read. It helps out so I can find books I know my family will enjoy reading. Thanks as well for the giveaway.
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