Light Shines on Promise Lodge

Charlotte Hubbard is writing a series of books about Promise Lodge--a place of safety for displaced Amish folk trying to get back on their feet after something tilted their world upside down.  According to the jacket blurb, the book is supposed to be about Annabelle and her husband Phineas, who left her with nothing and "jumped the fence."  But, for the most part, the book is about Gloria and Cyrus and their romance, and Clayton King--a man who is impersonating a bishop come to take over the gmay there.

Clayton's charges were that the church there was too progressive, allowed to much freedom to the women, and had fallen too far from the Ordnung.  What Clayton was truly after was the money the church there had put away for the community's needs.

From the time Clayton shows up, the Bishop, preachers, and deacons start investigating him, and Annabelle does too, because she knows people who live close to where he said he came from.

This isn't a five star book, but it is quite readable.  Four Stars.

Kensington Books and NetGalley.com provided the copy I read for this review.