Escaping the Velvet Curtain by Trudy Harvey Tait

This book concludes the story of Esther, Gabby and their friends. Gabby, thinking to escape the Velvet Curtain by returning to her native Romania, finds that her past follows her there and presents her with a dilemma that not even her most mature friends are able to solve. Esther, meanwhile, watching her sister make what she deems the mistake of a lifetime, has her own struggles with the Curtain. Now confined to a wheelchair, she is determined that a secluded life is her only option. But retirement into herself brings no escape. In the end, both sisters discover their own escape route which brings them to the same destination—safety, peace, and joy in the will of God.

What readers have written about the first book in the series:

The whole range of my emotional being has been touched by your story….I recognized the influence the velvet curtain has had in my own life.

I just want you to know the blessing your book, The Velvet Curtain, was to me. May we all be aware of the pressures and ways our American culture tries to conform us to its image rather than the image of Christ. Thank you for writing this book.

It (The Velvet Curtain) is just so wonderfully written and so very true. It says many things I’ve felt but could never put words to.