The woman hadn’t
even been there a full day, and yet she’d turned their world around.
Genre: Historical Fiction
Target Audience: Adult Women
Subjects: Gossip, Forgiveness, Loss of Loved Ones, Romance
Summary: Murderer! “You plannin’ on killin’ her like you done
killed your wife, Colton?” The day his wife was murdered, the worst day of
Woody Colton’s life turned even worse when the townspeople decided he was the
one guilty, despite the evidence otherwise. That was also the day his son
stopped speaking. The little boy has grown more and more thin and withdrawn. In
desperation Woody hires a nanny for him. In no time at all, things are
improving. Jimmy still isn’t speaking but he is laughing and eating and some of
Woody’s old friends are apologizing. Lillian has brought joy back into the
home. However, the murderer is still out there and he has not yet found what he
is looking for.
Notes: Beyond The Silence takes place in 1891. A young woman
from New York travels out to California to become a nanny to a hurting seven
year old who watched his mother get murdered and was threatened with the murder
of more of his family if he ever spoke and told anyone what he saw. The story
is actually largely about four characters: the murderer, a young man with some
mental disabilities, Woody, and Lillian. It varies between showing the point of
view from each of these four angles. The spiritual elements are largely focused
on forgiveness as Woody has to struggle to forgive those who have so greatly
wronged him. He recognizes that he can’t be the man God wants him to be or the
father his son needs until he deals with it.
Spiritual Content Recommendation Scale: 4/5
Reviewer: J:-)mi
Colossians 3:13 – Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance
against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Thank you to the publisher for providing me with a
free review copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
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