This book takes up where her older sister left off! Marianne Neumann takes up a job placing
orphans through the Children's Aid Society in 1858 New York. She does so in the
hopes that she can find her sister Sophie who left the city and so that they
can be reunited. At the same time, she
hopes that she can take these kids that have been left to their own devices, or
have been given up by friends or relatives who can no longer care for them! The Orphan Train takes the kids, Marianne and
another placing agent who is so handsome and endearing with Marianne and the
children through these cities to place the kids. She finds that she is drawn to him and before
the end she is caught up wanting to live her life with him, only to be caught
up in a web of lies and deceit that almost becomes her undoing! She and the other placing agent find
themselves tackling problems from their secret past in the middle of their
story and alst tackling their belief system and finding that God is there for
them. They have to love themselves
before they can love anyone else. The
stories of the children are very real and endearing and I so enjoyed the ride.
I believe I liked this book better than the second and that one was so good! Well written and well researched! This book was written on facts that existed
from the journals of the past placing agents and was so very well thought out
and planned. So very interesting! Thank
you to the author and to Bethany House for sharing this book with me and this
is my very own thoughts on the book as I read it almost in the same day, I had
to sleep a few hours. I couldn't put it down!
Thank you Jody Hedlund for this story and Bethany House!
Description as found on Good Reads: Determined to find her
lost younger sister, Marianne Neumann takes a job as a placing agent with the
Children's Aid Society in 1858 New York. She not only hopes to offer children a
better life, but prays she'll be able to discover whether Sophie ended up
leaving the city on an orphan train so they can finally be reunited.
Andrew Brady, her fellow agent on her first placing-out
trip, is a former schoolteacher who has an easy way with children, firm but
tender and friendly. Underneath his charm and handsome looks, though, seems to
linger a grief that won't go away--and a secret from his past that he keeps
hidden.
As the two team up, placing orphans in the small railroad
towns of Illinois, they find themselves growing ever closer . . . until a
shocking tragedy threatens to upend all their work and change one of their lives
forever.
