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“The Covenant began the saga with Sadie’s resistance to the Plain Life and its tragic consequences. The Betrayal continues the journey, with Leah and her beloved Jonas now separated by hundreds of miles. But more than time and distance are conspiring to keep them apart…” Book cover, The Betrayal, Beverly Lewis.

Wow! This second novel in the Abraam’s Daughter’s series really lived up to my expectations and now I can’t wait for the next in the series to come out!

The depth of heart ache, love and devotion in this novel is awesome. The choices that good people make can have such great ramifications on one’s life and the lives of those around them. While there is heartache, doubt and suspicion invading Leah’s relationship with Jonas, who has left the community to take carpentry training elsewhere, the greatest love story is between Sadie and her lost child. The pain, guilt and punishment that she inflicts on herself while trying to deal with the unexpressed love and regret for the death of her infant son, has phenomenal expression in this novel. The reader can feel the pain – it feels so genuine and real. It makes me want to reach out and help Sadie. Even though I found her so selfish in the first novel, she has paid for her sins with unimaginable loss and her sadness is so desperate. The forgiving love of God is unable to reach this young woman and Leah sacrifices several times in order to ease the burden of her sister’s dreadful secret. Unfortunately (or fortunately!) the truth always comes out and Sadie’s secret is no longer hidden. She must now choose to turn to God or to run away from a community she has always been part of, cutting herself off from her family with the religious shunning. How can she ask for forgiveness for her actions when she isn’t sorry she gave birth to a beautiful boy and loved Derry for even the short time she did? She is sorry that she is being punished by God (or is she really being punished by God – herein lays the message of redemption) and has lost her beloved son, but can she ever receive the love and forgiveness of her God? I can’t wait to read the third in this series to find out what happens in both of these marvelous story lines!

Hurry up, Beverly Lewis! I can’t wait!

~ Tracy