The Centurion`s Wife (Paperback)

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 out the truth behind rumors of a political execution gone awry. Leah's mistress, the governor's wife, secretly commissions Leah also to discover what really has become of this man whose death--and missing body--is causing such furor.
This epic drama is threaded with the tale of an unlikely romance and framed with dangers and betrayals from unexpected sources. At its core, The Centurion's Wife unfolds the testing of loyalties--between two young people whose inner searchings they cannot express, between their irreconcilable heritages, and ultimately between their humanity and the Divine they yearn to encounter.

General

Imprint:	Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	2009
Authors:	Janette Oke • Davis Bunn
Dimensions:	213 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	378
ISBN-13:	978-0-7642-0514-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7642-0514-5
Barcode:	9780764205149

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Fri, 18 Jul 2014 | Review by: Brenda S.

Beautiful story and beautifully told.

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