LIGHT SHINES ON PROMISE LODGE book review

Light Shines on Promise Lodge
(Promise Lodge #5)
by Charlotte Hubbard

Book Description:
With autumn in full brilliant color, the Amish of Promise Lodge celebrate a successful harvest---and a community rooted in deep friendship. But as cold winds of judgment cast doubt and fear, residents will need each other more than ever to weather the storm. 

For abandoned wife Annabelle Peachey, Promise Lodge is a refuge where she's gained confidence and
self-sufficiency, but she and others are dismayed when newly arrived Bishop Clayton King claims the community is too progressive and sets out to change its ways. Worse, her husband, Phineas, returns, expecting her to give up her faith as he has.  And he won't leave Promise Lodge without her.....

But little by little, Annabelle's determination and new forthrightness make Phineas realize his mistakes---and truly hear his wife for the first time.  Meanwhile, Annabelle finds herself feeling compassion, and even renewed love, for her newly humble, more caring husband. And as Bishop Clayton's attempt to control Promise Lodge threatens everything its residents have built, Phineas and Annabelle must work together with unshakable courage to save their new home---and their opportunity for forever happiness.

MY BOOK REVIEW:
5 Stars:  5/5 Star Rating 
        How lovely to visit with my friends at Promise Lodge again!  What an exciting visit it was too.  Annabelle's husband arrives to reclaim the wife he abandoned, even though she is reluctant to leave her faith and blindly follow him.  Bishop Clayton King arrives on the scene and begins to stir things up as well when he plans to change everything in the settlement as he feels they are on their way straight to hell due to their progressive ways.  Wow!  How on earth will these issues resolve peacefully?  I loved this book.  I read them during our days of social distancing due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and the book was a balm to my spirit.  Forgiveness and second chances abound in the pages of the book.  Several delicious recipes are included at the conclusion of the book that were used by the characters of the book.  I might just have to prepare some of these while social distancing too. 
       I received a digital ARC of this book from netgalley and Zebra Publishing.  All opinions expressed are my own.

About the Author:



Drawing upon her experiences in Jamesport, the largest Old Order Amish community west of the Mississippi, longtime Missourian Charlotte Hubbard (a.k.a. Naomi King) writes of simpler times and a faith-based lifestyle in her new Seasons of the Heart series. Like her heroine, Miriam Lantz, Charlotte considers it her personal mission to feed people—to share hearth and home. Faith and family, farming and food preservation are hallmarks of her lifestyle, and the foundation of her earlier Angels of Mercy series. She’s a deacon, a dedicated church musician and choir member, and when she’s not writing, she loves to try new recipes, crochet, and sew. Charlotte now lives in Minnesota with her husband and their border collie.