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Psychologist Susan Rose is called back home to the Colorado horse ranch she was once eager to leave. When Susan climbs on a free spirited horse and rides away, gone for a long while and others on the ranch wonder about her fate.
Susan has stumbled upon a creepy secret. A tumble from the horse sends her over the edge of a ridge where a young man who she names Jacob, (as he has no recollection of who he is,) is shackled in a cleft of a cliff. She frees him and brings him to the ranch.
It quickly becomes evident that when Jacob’s around miracles happen, but also, there’s an out break of a macabre mix of murder and mystification and Jacob’s amnesia can’t help protect him from accusations by the
sheriff.
When Susan tries some sort of mind therapy on Jacob no one is prepared for what happens. Could he really be a fallen demon? Or is severe childhood abuse the explanation?
The Hidden is a suspense filled story with subtle tones of spiritual identity and a bible truth hidden in plain sight (Jude 6). If anyone dared look close enough we can imagine the same sorts of battles raging all around us. But we don’t dare look, or don’t care to look. That could be the beginning of our own undoing. Maybe Jacob’s story is one that will take hold?
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Kathryn Mackel is a storyteller who isn’t afraid to tackle hard issues and force us to examine evil and good. And realize that evil lives even where good is. The reader is drawn quickly into the story and between chasing pages and remembering to breath, the reader will finish the book understanding exactly how far those angels fell from heaven and just who they want to take with them on their final descent.
The Hidden is a must read for anyone who likes fast-paced spiritual warfare type stories.
Reviewed by Linda Mae Baldwin
for The Road to Romance
July 21, 2006
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