Hiding at Hidden Run

Jillian is a genealogist who does work for insurance companies and other entities to help find people for a number of reasons. Her father, Nolan, is an attorney who specializes in mediation.  Her friend Nia owns a bed and breakfast called Hidden Run and just lost her help and needs someone to help in the kitchen, cleaning rooms, and doing the laundry.  Meri is a girl (really a young woman) who has flunked out of her first semester of medical school and doesn't want to face her family.  She doesn't feel that being a doctor is her calling.  She comes to Canyon Mines, Colorado, the last place she remembers feeling happy, and ends up working for Nia. 

Nolan convinces Jillian to use her genealogy to help Meri find herself, and then to help her family when they arrive on the scene to create chaos. 

I chose to read this book because Olivia Newport wrote it.  Her name on the front cover is enough to get me to read it.  Her characters are "real" in a way that make them friends to the readers.  The settings are perfect for the plot set-up and gives the reader pictures to hold in their minds while imagining all the places and things the characters are going through.

This is a five star book with two thumbs up and a family tree that tells more than just the genealogy. 

I wish to thank Barbour Books and NetGalley.com for providing the galley I read for this review.