Happiness: How to Find It

Rose Gluck thought she had every­thing in life. Just out of high school, she spent her days work­ing as a pio­neer min­is­ter of her Jehovah’s Wit­ness faith, going door-to-door teach­ing oth­ers about the Bible and the hap­pi­fy­ing future God had planned. She thought she knew what it meant to be happy, but things would change when Wyatt True, a recent grad­u­ate of the Min­is­te­r­ial Train­ing School came to help her small coun­try congregation.

Rose finds her­self drawn to the dash­ing young brother and expe­ri­enc­ing feel­ings that she never knew existed. Mean­while, despite his vow of sin­gle­ness, Wyatt can’t but help to fall for the beau­ti­ful young sis­ter.  The two seemed headed toward happy ever after, but the Pre­sid­ing Over­seer of the con­gre­ga­tion has his own plans for Rose. Rose must now risk los­ing every­thing and every­one to be with the man of her dreams. Love is never easy, but it can be par­tic­u­larly chal­leng­ing when you are a part of high con­trol reli­gion.  Will Rose find eter­nal happiness?

“The hard­est choice she ever had to make was between true reli­gion and true love.”

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Hap­pi­ness: How To Find It is Anthony Mathenia’s National Novel Writ­ing Month project for 2011. It is his first foray in writ­ing roman­tic fic­tion while still main­tain­ing his pen­chant for explor­ing the darker side of reli­gions and the strug­gle of life in high con­trol groups.  Hap­pi­ness is a sour-ball of book; sweet and sug­ary with a bit­ter bite. It will be avail­able as a free eBook early 2012.