The Hidden SideHeidi Chiavaroli

Christian historical fiction

The Hidden Side

Popular radio host Natalie Abbott offers hope to strangers while struggling to connect with her own teenagers and concealing fractures inside her family. A school shooting involving one of her children shatters the public identity behind which she has hidden and leaves every member of the household facing grief, shame, and impossible questions. In 1776, Mercy Howard responds to the execution of her fiance, Nathan Hale, by entering a Patriot spy ring in British-occupied New York. Intense and dual-timeline, this novel suits readers prepared for school-violence themes who appreciate family crisis, Revolutionary espionage, hidden loyalties, and faith-centered explorations of sorrow that resist easy answers.

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School shooting and child deaths; gun violence; suicide-related themes and survivor guilt; grief and trauma; family crisis; Revolutionary War execution and espionage; smoking.

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