Miri Brayden teeters on a razor’s edge between placating and enraging her brother, whom she depends upon for support. Yet if his anger is unleashed, so is his madness. Miri must keep his descent into lunacy a secret, or he’ll be committed to an asylum — and she’ll be sent to the poorhouse.
Ethan Goodwin has been on the run all of his life — from family, from the law… from God. After a … heart-changing encounter with the gritty Reverend John Newton, Ethan would like nothing more than to become a man of integrity — an impossible feat for an opium addict charged with murder.
When Ethan shows up on Miri’s doorstep, her balancing act falls to pieces. Both Ethan and Miri are caught in a web of lies and deceit — fallacies that land Ethan in prison and Miri in the asylum with her brother. Only the truth will set them free.
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Michelle Griep doesn’t write about the richest of the rich, but about the heroics of the average. I love her universal, timeless message that says that even those without wealth and fame can change a little corner of the world and make a difference. Michelle enhances her message with her amazing ability to develop a story world and create unique, …
Maybe it’s just me, but I loved the bits of quirky humor sprinkled throughout A Heart Deceived. I thought Michelle Griep did a wonderful job portraying each character and giving each one a distinct voice. I could see the whole story playing out as a movie as I read. I couldn’t put it down once I started reading and it kept me reading until the …
Let me start off by saying that historical Christian fiction is not the type of book I normally read, but that being said I really enjoyed it. The story was very well written, realistically portraying the time period as much as I could tell from my limited knowledge of that era. I laughed out loud, I became frustrated with some of the “bad people” …
I was really enjoying this story until I got to the part about the madam of a bawdy house … who shares MY name! Spelling my name the way I do – with the double G on the end – is actually the way it’s spelled as a last name. Imagine my surprise to find another Pegg – first name – only to find that she’s a harlot.
Thank you, Michelle Griep. **she …
‘When we’re at our weakest, God’s at His strongest.’
Miri Brayden lives with her brother, a preacher who is mad. She is constantly on her guard to protect that fact from others, for she knows he will be committed to an asylum if his madness is discovered. And he is her only source of income. Then one day she discovers a bedraggled beggar in …
I loved this book, the setting, the characters, the plot. It was sad and challenging, but especially glad when it all was brought together at the end.