Notes From Hiding

By: Kathryn Judson

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Fifteen-year-old Isannah has lived her entire life inside an old prison camp out in the wilderness, with no contact with the outside world. On the upside, Genesee Settlement is a rather nice community, and large enough to have several young men her age as a prospective husband. Better yet, all but one of them seems like someone worth marrying. So, her life looks like it will be fairly smooth and as pleasant as a life of exile could hope to be.

But then the ongoing war that sent her parents into isolation comes closer and closer, and Isannah is face to face with possibly losing all she holds dear.

She begins a journal addressed to the outside world, in part to let them know what would be lost if in fact someone did wind up wiping out her community. Soon after, the outside world comes crashing into her peaceful life, for better and for worse. For the next three years, Isannah writes to whoever will listen, sharing her hopes, fears, and her zest for life in a world full of pain, confusion, and danger.

This book was previously published as a series of ebook shorts: Dear Invader, Dear Citizen, Dear Neighbor, To Whom It May Concern, and Isannah Here.

Novels set in the Smolder Era, following different characters in different places, are The Smolder, The Birdwatcher, The Unexpecteds, The Hidden, Notes From Hiding, The Historian, The Forgotten Ways, and The Lowly. The Smolder and The Birdwatcher are written primarily from the perspective of people who want to fight other people to obtain freedom. The Unexpecteds is mostly about people picking up and moving on after a war-related calamity. The rest are increasingly from the perspective of Christians who have decided to lay down their worldly weapons out of obedience to Christ, who are dedicated to overcoming evil His way.