The Centurion's Wife (Acts of Faith #1)
Bloomington, MN: Bethany House, 2009. Paperback. 5.5"x8.5" 378 pp. Art direction: Paul Higdon. Cover design by Jennifer Parker. Cover photo by Mike Habermann. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/slight tone. Not x-library, & unclipped. Initials on ffep. Used - VeryGood. Item #13723
ISBN: 9780764205149
Janette Oke has dreamed for years of retelling a story in a biblical time frame from a female protagonist's perspective, and Davis Bunn is elated to be working with her again on this sweeping saga of the dramatic events surrounding the birth of Christianity...and the very personal story of Leah, a young Jewess of mixed heritage trapped in a vortex of competing political agendas and private trauma.
Caught up in the maelstrom following the death of an obscure rabbi in the Roman backwater of first-century Palestine, Leah finds herself also engulfed in her own turmoil--facing the prospect of an arranged marriage to a Roman soldier, Alban, who seems to care for nothing but his own ambitions. Head of the garrison near Galilee, he has been assigned by Palestine's governor to ferret ou...Source: Publisher.
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