About the Book
Book: Beauty in Hiding
Author: Robin Patchen
Genre: Christian romantic suspense
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Book 2 in the Beauty in Flight series:
Harper’s second chance at life will become a second stint in prison if anyone connects those two dead men to her.
Nutfield, New Hampshire, is as good a place as any to hide from the murderer Harper left behind in Maryland. All she has to do is lie low and make enough money to keep herself and Red alive until she can figure out who her enemies are.
Jack Rossi isn’t sure what to make of his beautiful new tenant and her confused grandfather. Something’s not right, but the love he sees between them and the care she takes of the old man convinces Jack they’re trustworthy. As drawn as he is to Harper, she’s his tenant, so she’s off limits.
Derrick, Harper’s ex-boyfriend and Red’s grandson, needs to find his grandfather and get his hands on the old man’s money before Derrick ends up with a bullet in the skull. And when he gets his hands on Harper, she’ll be sorry for what she’s put him through.
Harper and Jack grow closer, but so do her enemies. If Harper can’t trust Jack with the truth, she may lose more than just this glimpse of true love. She may lose her freedom—or her life.
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About the Author
Aside from her family and her Savior, Robin Patchen has two loves—writing and traveling. If she could combine them, she’d spend a lot of time sitting in front of her laptop at sidewalk cafes and ski lodges and beachside burger joints. She’d visit every place in the entire world—twice, if possible—and craft stories and tell people about her Savior. Alas, time is too short and money is too scarce for Robin to traipse all over the globe, even if her husband and kids wanted to go with her. So she stays in Oklahoma, shares the Good News when she can, and writes to illustrate the unending grace of God through the power and magic of story.
My Review
This series has me totally hooked! It’s definitely one that needs to be read in order. Even though it’s broken up into three books, it reads as one fluid story. So far both books have ended on cliffhangers that demand you instantly dive into the next. I have book 3 sitting right beside me ready for just that!
One thing I found interesting in this story, is that while Harper and Red (aka “Gramps” now) are in hiding, Red’s mental status has continued to decline and that somehow works in their favor. When he has moments of confusion it makes Harper’s cover-up story seem more legitimate. When he has moments of panic people just assume it’s his condition instead of their real circumstances. One thing that was clear to everyone–regardless of the circumstances that had brought them to New Hampshire, it was clear that Harper cared for Red.
My only complaint was that while Jack is a lovely character, he seemed far too good to be true. It felt awkward how abruptly he’d entered the story and inserted himself into Harper and Red’s lives. As soon as they showed up in town it was if he had no life apart from them. He was a guy girls dream of, but he was too unrealistic.
I’m really enjoying this series so far and can’t wait to get through the next (and final) book. I’m curious to see how the author will bring it all together and how the mystery behind their circumstances will unfold. It’s clear that Harper has a difficult road ahead of her and I’m anxious to see how she maneuvers it all. Suspense fans, you NEED to read this series!
*I received a copy of this book through CelebrateLit. Thoughts and opinions expressed are mine alone.
More from Robin
I was raised in a Christian home. Our parents took my sister, my brother, and me to church every Sunday. They taught us right from wrong, but eventually, kids have to make their own choices. In my case, I chose wrong for a long time.
Don’t misunderstand: I was always a pretty nice person. I wasn’t a thief, and I didn’t kill anybody, but I made a lot of bad decisions. Sinful decisions. I discovered that one bad choice often led to the next and the next until I was trapped in a life of my own making with no idea how to get out.
But God… two of my favorite words in the English language.
God had a different plan, and He pulled me out of the muck and changed my life. He showed me that I was not the person I’d been acting like. He showed me who I was, and He taught me to walk in the truth of my identity.
Harper Cloud isn’t me, not at all. First of all, she tall and blond and drop-dead gorgeous. More than that, her choices are nothing like mine were. But she’s in the same boat I was. Thanks to a series of bad decisions, Harper was in a hole, and she didn’t know how to get herself out of it. She used drugs to quiet the condemning voices and told herself lies to make herself feel better. Someday, she told herself, she’d get her life together enough to go home to her parents. Because she couldn’t go when she was a mess. She couldn’t go until she’d done something they could be proud of.
Thanks to a bad choice in boyfriend, Harper not only didn’t go home, she ended up in prison.
Harper’s story begins two years after she’s released. It’s the story of a woman desperate to be free of her past, clinging to hope when there’s every reason to despair, and desperate to believe what she’s been told about this Savior, Jesus Christ.
Harper will learn about love and redemption and salvation in the course of the three books that make up the Beauty in Flight series. That is, if she can survive the danger that seems to follow her wherever she goes.
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Giveaway
Sounds good.
Great review Becca. You are right, Jack does seem too good to be true, but I still loved him as a character. I am just assuming that he is just an amazing guy and like The Good Samaritan. Sometimes I just suspend belief. I am looking forward to the next book as well.
One of my struggles with characters that are too good to be true is not really that I don’t love them, but they create impossible expectations or hopes in real people that just don’t exist.
That is very true. Harkens back to the old fairytale princesses and girls waiting for their Prince or Knight in Shining Armour.
True, but also an odd twist to a romantic suspense lol!
Do you have the same self-imposed rule that I do, to write the review for one book before reading the next in the series? That can be torture sometimes!
Yep 🙂 I do that for every book before I move on though. It’s fresher in my mind and keeps me on top of my reviews, otherwise I’d get behind on them!