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The Colors of Eliza Gray

J. Willis Sanders

Eighteen and deaf, confused as to why her family wears black clothes when the people in a nearby town do not, Eliza Gray has no idea she is Amish. Her peers mock her deafness. Her mother makes her work while her siblings attend school. Still, she manages to find a tiny bit of happiness in life-by creating amazing art with the colors she gathers from nature.


When Eliza fights back against her tormentors, it begins a chain of events she could never imagine. One is when art collectors clamor for her work. Another is having the family she's always wanted through sign language. When she falls in love with her teacher, she must decide between love and being shunned-and the decision could destroy both her and the man she loves.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Buggs Island Books
  • Publish Date: May 10th, 2021
  • Pages: 304
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.68in - 0.85lb
  • EAN: 9781954763012
  • Categories: Amish & MennoniteRomance - Contemporary

Praise for this book

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."