Searching for You

By Jody Hedlund

Book Overview

Her Search for a Place to Call Home
Leads Her to the Last Place She Ever Expected

For years, Sophie Neumann has been running from the orphanages of 1850s New York City. Tasked with caring for two younger children, she's determined not to let them be taken from her, and not to abandon them the same way her older sisters did her. But times are growing desperate, and when she falls in with the wrong crowd and witnesses a crime, she realizes fleeing the state is her only option.

Disappearing with her two young charges into a group of orphans heading west by train, Sophie hopes to find safety and a happy life. But when the train stops in Illinois, she faces an agonizing decision as the orphans will be placed in new homes. Afraid she'll lose them forever, she finds help in a familiar face she never expected to see so far from New York.

Reinhold Weiss has finally purchased his own small farm in Illinois. With mounting debts, a harvest to bring in, and past scars that still haunt him, Reinhold is in no position to give his heart away . . . but can he say no when his long-lost friend shows up on a nearby farm pleading for his help?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764218069
• ISBN13: 9780764218064
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Orphan Train Story

Searching for You by Jody Hedlund is the third book in her Orphan Train series. This is Sophie’s story. She has been given the task of raising two younger orphans. After witnessing a murder, she flees New York City with Olivia and Nicholas. Joining an orphan train headed to Illinois seems to be her only hope of keeping everybody together as a family. There she runs into her old friend Reinhold Weiss. Vowing never to give his heart to another because of his past, Reinhold must fight to keep his feelings hidden. But when Sophie needs his help, his heart is in serious danger of over-ruling his brain. I really liked the story-line. The author has great talent. The only draw-back was she tried to make a Christian story more appealing to a wider audience; and came pretty close to crossing over that invisible line of a clean-read as opposed to a secular romance. There were scenes that I felt were inappropriate for a Christian novel. If she had only left the steamier scenes out it would have been a good book. I received this book from the author in exchange for my honest review.