New from Ann H. Gabhart is the historical Shaker novel The Blessed (Revell Books), set in 1844. Lacey Bishop’s life is a tangled mess—estranged from her own family, married to a widowed preacher, and now dragged off to a Shaker village. Now living in a community that believes marriage is a sin, she finds herself drawn to a man who came to the Shakers after his young bride died. But of course any notion of love between them is only a forbidden dream. How will Lacey ever find true happiness?
