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Seaport Suspense #3
All Things Hidden
The Past Is Back
Ellen Jones’s hands are full after she begrudgingly brings her aging father to Seaport. Lawrence’s memory is failing—though he can’t seem to forget what he’s been holding against Ellen for the past forty years. But when he’s diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Ellen realizes she never released her resentment and it’s too late for reconciliation. Then suddenly—literally overnight—her son, Owen, comes face-to-face with the consequences of his wilder days gone by. No one is prepared for the changes he, and the entire family, will have to make as a result. The past weighing heavily in the present, a clean start is out of the question for both Ellen and Owen. How can God heal their deepest wounds? Enter the least expected person of the bunch… Can secrets kill?
Ellen Jones gets a disturbing call from her elderly father’s neighbor and must face the fact that her father, Lawrence, is no longer safe living alone. Ellen resents that he forgets the simplest of details and yet remembers the one thing he’s held against her for the past forty years. Her being his caregiver is out of the question.
Ellen and her husband Guy pair up their fathers to share an apartment in a nearby retirement community. The setup seems ideal until Lawrence wanders off...right past the scene of a murder. Did he see something? He can’t quite remember... but the killer doesn’t know that!
Just when Lawrence is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and Ellen realizes there’s no chance they’ll ever be reconciled, a shocking secret surfaces from her son Owen’s past that drops her to her knees. Ellen is desperate for a miracle. Will God intervene and erase the consequences of past mistakes—or does He have an even better plan?
Story Behind the Book
“I was twenty-seven when I gave my heart to Jesus. And twenty-nine years later, I’m still realizing the long-term consequences of some of the choices I made during the years I was enslaved to sin. The words of Galatians 6:7, “Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows,” are as true today as when the apostle Paul wrote them. In the writing of All Things Hidden, my goal was to create unforgettable characters caught in the throes of overwhelming consequences, and enable us to watch the response of a merciful God not to remove their struggle, but to walk with them through the pain and redeem it for His glory.”
—Kathy Herman
Ellen Jones’s hands are full after she begrudgingly brings her aging father to Seaport. Lawrence’s memory is failing—though he can’t seem to forget what he’s been holding against Ellen for the past forty years. But when he’s diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Ellen realizes she never released her resentment and it’s too late for reconciliation. Then suddenly—literally overnight—her son, Owen, comes face-to-face with the consequences of his wilder days gone by. No one is prepared for the changes he, and the entire family, will have to make as a result. The past weighing heavily in the present, a clean start is out of the question for both Ellen and Owen. How can God heal their deepest wounds? Enter the least expected person of the bunch… Can secrets kill?
Ellen Jones gets a disturbing call from her elderly father’s neighbor and must face the fact that her father, Lawrence, is no longer safe living alone. Ellen resents that he forgets the simplest of details and yet remembers the one thing he’s held against her for the past forty years. Her being his caregiver is out of the question.
Ellen and her husband Guy pair up their fathers to share an apartment in a nearby retirement community. The setup seems ideal until Lawrence wanders off...right past the scene of a murder. Did he see something? He can’t quite remember... but the killer doesn’t know that!
Just when Lawrence is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and Ellen realizes there’s no chance they’ll ever be reconciled, a shocking secret surfaces from her son Owen’s past that drops her to her knees. Ellen is desperate for a miracle. Will God intervene and erase the consequences of past mistakes—or does He have an even better plan?
Story Behind the Book
“I was twenty-seven when I gave my heart to Jesus. And twenty-nine years later, I’m still realizing the long-term consequences of some of the choices I made during the years I was enslaved to sin. The words of Galatians 6:7, “Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows,” are as true today as when the apostle Paul wrote them. In the writing of All Things Hidden, my goal was to create unforgettable characters caught in the throes of overwhelming consequences, and enable us to watch the response of a merciful God not to remove their struggle, but to walk with them through the pain and redeem it for His glory.”
—Kathy Herman
352 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2006
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About the author
Kathy Herman
34 books244 followersBest-selling suspense novelist Kathy Herman has written twenty novels—including the Secrets or Roux River Bayou Series, Sophie Trace Series, the Seaport Suspense Series, and the Phantom Hollow Series—since retiring from her family’s Christian bookstore business. She and her late husband Paul have a blended family of three grown children. Kathy lives in the Northwest.
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October 13, 2015
This was another good book in the Seaport Suspense series. Kathy definitely writes about some hard topics. I look forward to finishing the series.
November 19, 2019
Predictable. If you like Hallmark movies, this fits the bill. I liked it but it’s nothing special.
March 31, 2022
This book touched me more than the other two. Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease that destroys the victim and their families. The author did a great job of describing the feelings and emotions from all sides. I love the way the author brings in Jesus throughout the book.
The murders were a mystery and the suspense kept me going until the end. I really enjoyed this book.
The murders were a mystery and the suspense kept me going until the end. I really enjoyed this book.
October 9, 2023
I really enjoyed this one. I wasn't as confident in identifying the murderer as I was in other books. I appreciate how she made Ellen a rounded character and that she was a sinner as well. To see a character admit that she was just as much to blame for the broken relationship was refreshing and something I needed to hear in my own life.
May 7, 2017
this book hit really close to home for me ... Ellen having to deal with her father in more ways than one! very well done.
November 22, 2012
Book 3 in the Seaport Suspense series. Ellen deals with her father with Alzheimers and her son Owen finding out he fathered a child before he married Hailey. Als0 3 murders inSeaport that Will Seevers is trying to solve. Good book.
August 13, 2008
These mysteries are delightful. Loved this Seaport Mystery series. I am looking for the Baxter ones now. Very suspenseful without being violent. Clean, Christian, and exciting.
October 12, 2012
Suspenseful reading with good ending.
July 28, 2013
Such a good book loved it
March 11, 2018
Part of A Seaport Suspense series. This is book three. An easy read.
January 4, 2016
Great book! I love this series
September 19, 2011
good read
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