About the Book

A Father-Daughter Genealogy Team Link Present to Past on Family Tree

Meri flunks out of medical school—and runs from her parents. Genealogist Jillian Parisi-Duffy’s digging traces the family long tradition of doctors to an ancestor saved during a yellow fever outbreak in Memphis in 1878. As Meri’s family closes in, Jillian gets the final puzzle pieces in place just in time for them all to learn the truth. The Inn at Hidden Run is the first book in the Tree of Life series. Readers will come back to backdrop of a lovely mountain town of Canyon Mines again and again to explore and celebrate unforgettable family stories that inspire them to connect with their own family histories and unique faith journeys.

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"The Inn At Hidden Run" by Olivia Newport was a book that I really enjoyed reading. I really wanted to finished it because I wanted to know why Meri was on the run and once I found out why, I wanted to know the outcome.

I like how the story is divided into Meri's life and then the next chapter is the story of the yellow fever outbreak in Memphis in 1878.

My heart strings was pulled when reading about the yellow fever outbreak. I could sympathize with Eliza as she hunts for a friend and helps these that have family members with this disease.

This is a story that connects the past to the future. It also makes me want to start searching my own family history again and not give up when I hit a snare like I do before when I searching my grandparents.

The characters in this book are really likable, through at first I was thinking Meri's family was so likable.

This book really showed me that a person's ancestors really does play a part in what our own dreams and hopes are. I really like that the names of some of the characters in this novel is explained and that once explained the characters themselves are happy that they were named those names.

I am eagerly awaiting the other three books in this series to be available.

I was given a complimentary copy by the author and Celebrate Lit. These are my own opinions.

About the Author

Olivia Newport’s novels twist through time to find where faith and passions meet. Her husband and twentysomething children provide welcome distraction from the people stomping through her head on their way into her books. She chases joy in stunning Colorado at the foot of the Rockies, where daylilies grow as tall as she is.

More from Olivia

Of Family Lines and Family Lore I suppose it all started in a cemetery. Once, while a group of relatives were visiting a cemetery, one of my cousins and I wandered off and looked at all sorts of graves, speculating about the names we read and the lives they represented. We were duly scolded both for separating from our families, which caused some consternation, and for being disrespectful—though I think the second accusation was a false one! Just because we were young children didn’t mean we were disrespecting the dead. Quite the opposite. We were respecting lives long forgotten with our curiosity about who they were and what legacies they left. These days a lot of people are interested in genealogy. Entire TV series spin around the theme, and DNA kits show up in Christmas stockings. Lost branches of family trees find the main trunk—sometimes with big surprises. My new Tree of Life series is set in the backdrop of a lovely Colorado mountain town I hope you’ll want to visit often, where a father-daughter genealogy team link present to past on family trees and characters learn about who they are, where they come from, and their unique faith journeys as they discover their own Tree of Life. It all starts with The Inn at Hidden Run. When Meri arrives in Canyon Mines because she wants to run away from her family, true answers come from understanding the past that generations have forgotten—the accounts from another time and place no longer handed down but that still form the backbone of the family’s story. What’s the backbone of your family’s history? How is it shaping your own future?