The Colors of Eliza Gray

Verified Amazon Reviews:

"I can honestly say that "The Colors of Eliza Gray" had me hooked from chapter one! It had me wishing for a "happily ever after" for Eliza from the beginning. Every emotion is found in this book and J. WiIlis Sanders definitely knows how to draw his readers in! I had read half of it before I realized it and finished it up the next morning!"

"Enjoyed this book so much! Stayed up way past my bedtime to finish it. Romantic and inspiring story. Great descriptions enabling the reader to visualize the scenes. Highly recommended."

"Captivating!

Eliza is a lovely young deaf Amish girl, approaching womanhood. Unloved by her mother, and unable to communicate with her younger siblings, and their Amish neighbors, she lives a lonely life. Only her father seems to care.

She has become an artist and creates paintings with whatever she can find; mud, sticks, leaves. Her father learns of a new school which will teach signing to a deaf child and a parent. He enrolls Eliza and accompanies her.

Denver has graduated from college with a minor in signing for the deaf. He is hired to teach at the small school and arrives to find Eliza is his only student. Captured by her physical beauty on first meeting, he soon learns she is very intelligent and has a photographic memory.

She falls in love with him, and he with her, but he tries to maintain a proper distance as she is Amish and a relationship is unlikely. There is much more to this multifaceted story which I highly recommend.

I don't know much about the Amish, deafness, or signing, but J. Willis Sanders has captured love in this story. Love of a father to his daughter, love between brothers and sisters, and true love struggling to find a way to a future together. I look forward to Sanders' next book."