Silent Shadows (Harbored Secrets #3)
by Natalie Walters
4 stars. Thanks to Revell, a division of Baker Publishing company, for sending me this book to review. This was the third in the Harbored Secrets series and the second book for me by author Natalie Walters. I was sad to read at the end of this book that this series comes to a close with Silent Shadows. I enjoyed the first book in the series as the stories take place in the tiny town of Walton, Georgia. This story returns to that tiny town. The story has that Southern charm mixed with murder/mystery caper type of read. In this story our main character Pecca Gallegos is a nurse who is working at a home for wounded veterans. She has come to the town of Walton to escape her past, which includes gang involvement and her son being born out of wedlock. Her story seems interesting enough, but then you add Army veteran Colton Crawford who is suffering from a movement disorder and is one of Pecca's patients to the mix and I found it a great read. His story was intriguing to me as it looked at the way the mind can so control the body through no conscious control of the human who is inhabiting that body (i.e. his movement disorder). This army veteran isn't an old guy- he's actually Pecca's age- in his 30's. I think you know where this is going. I appreciated the way Natalie covered multiple areas of building this story through mini story lines with multiple characters.
Natalie Walters does a great job of respectfully portraying armed forces veterans in this book and the first one of the series. Somehow I missed the second one in this series, but look forward to picking it up in the near future. Natalie can write about the armed forces perspective honestly since her husband is in the army. She also has a lovely way of incorporating faith into her stories. I needed a little diversion from COVID-19 pandemic and this was the perfect read to do that.