Imag­ine awak­en­ing to a new real­i­ty of who you are, reveal­ing a buried past that has shaped your fam­i­ly’s his­to­ry for centuries.

A series of seem­ing­ly unre­lat­ed events force the pro­tag­o­nist of Hid­den Star to reex­am­ine her life and all she has inher­it­ed. A mys­te­ri­ous cache of arti­facts pro­vides links to her fam­i­ly’s true past and for­mer iden­ti­ty — that of Span­ish colo­nial set­tlers, con­ver­sos lat­er referred to as hid­den or cryp­to-Jews. Her quest for her real iden­ti­ty and the search for her run­away chil­dren across the New Mex­i­co wilder­ness ulti­mate­ly reveal a star­tling truth. Guid­ed by a priest and a local sher­iff, her even­tu­al redis­cov­ery of her Jew­ish roots and her spir­i­tu­al return launch a dra­mat­ic home­com­ing. With a for­ward mov­ing plot line anchored by flash­backs into Jew­ish his­to­ry, two women face par­al­lel dilem­mas at the book’s clos­ing: one at the mer­cy of the Span­ish Inqui­si­tion, turn­ing from Judaism to Chris­tian­i­ty to save her life; the oth­er from Catholi­cism back to Judaism, to save her soul.