HIDDEN PLACES

From the award-winning novel by Lynn Austin comes the story of an American family struggling against the odds of the Great Depression to hold on to everything they hold dear…

For years, Wyatt’s Orange Grove has comfortably supported California farmers, Frank (John Diehl, Jurassic Park III) and Eliza Wyatt (Emmy nominee Sydney Penny, All My Children). But this year, mounting debts, force the Wyatts to enlist the help of their children, Luke and Betty (Logan Arens and Carlie Westerman), to bring in the crop by pulling them from school. Offering to home school the children is Frank’s sister, the eccentric Aunt Batty (Oscar winner Shirley Jones, The Partridge Family). When a heart attack kills Frank, Eliza is left a hopeless single mother whose faith is tested. Then comes Gabriel Harper (Jason Gedrick Iron Eagle), a drifter sharing the name of an angel, who’s dropped into town looking for work, a meal, and a roof over his head. With Batty’s encouragement, it’s a trade-off that suits both Gabriel and Eliza.

Gabriel isn’t an ordinary drifter. He’s intelligent, God-fearing, polite, and well-spoken. What’s a man like that doing hitching from town to town on railroad cars? Is he in search of something, or is he running from something? But with a bank foreclosure looming in thirty days, he’s exactly what Eliza and her adoring children need. Then Eliza comes across Gabriel’s secret journal—a sad and moving chronicle of his life that engages her and draws her closer to this unique stranger. As Eliza must decide if she should sell Wyatt’s farm, she realises that Gabriel may indeed be the earthbound angel that she’s been waiting for.