Review: Mercy House by Alena Dillon
Mercy House by Alena Dillon My rating: 4 of 5 stars In the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn stands a century-old row house presided over by renegade, silver-haired Sister Evelyn. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, Evelyn and her fellow sisters makes Mercy House a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of how Sister Evelyn become a nun, what lead her to open Mercy House and her secret efforts to help the women who land on her doorstep even if it is forbidden by the church. We also meet the current women residing in the home and the circumstances that lead them there. The villain is Bishop Hawk. He's there to investigate Mercy House and the nuns. He's looking for any reason to shut them down. The beginning of the book starts off with a new girl showing up in the middle of the night. As Sister Evelyn moves through the next day to figure out how serious the situation is with the newest arrival y...