Inside the mystery of America's first mystics

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From Innerchange Magazine:

If you do not read another book this season, read this one! Then give copies to your friends. Based on a true story, Jonathan D. Scott enhances this novel with chapter notes at the end of the book that explain where truth and artistic license blend and offers a compelling bibliography that leaves you wanting more!

The setting is 17 th century Germany and Pennsylvania and the beginning of unrest in Martin Luther's church. Lydia Bielen exists in the 19th century and becomes the vehicle for our journey of discovery regarding Johann Kelpius and the Pietists that broke from the Lutheran Church. The virginal quality of Kelpius' devout yet inquisitive nature that eventually brings him to the attention of the German Pietists draws in the reader. Like all great fictional heroes, Kelpius is an orphan with a miserable childhood and extraordinary gifts. However, Kelpius actually was one of America 's first mystics. His is a prodigy in intelligence, music, and theology. Perhaps this is what finally compels him to seek out the true nature of Divine Wisdom.

The gift of a bent gold star, an old counterpane, and a battered, handwritten hymnal from her great-aunt, sets Lydia on a sixty-year search for information on the man whom her ancestors loved and nurtured. Two centuries apart, Johann and Lydia both discover the mystery of The Woman in the Wilderness.