Jill Eileen Smith. Revell, $14.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-8007-3429-9
Following the successful Wives of King David series, Smith opens her new Wives of the Patriarchs series with this midrashic expansion of the story of Abraham and his wife, Sarah. In the biblical account, Sarah gives birth in her old age to Isaac, as
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Jill Eileen Smith. Revell, $14.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-8007-2035-3
Deborah, Old Testament judge and prophet, is the focus of the second book in prolific author Smith's (The Crimson Cord) Daughters of the Promised Land series. The story opens when Deborah, obeying her father's instruction to return home, is given in
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Jill Eileen Smith. Revell, $15.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-8007-2036-0
Smith (Wives of King David), beloved for her biblical fiction bringing new life to women from the pages of Scripture, turns her imagination to Ruth, a Moabite who returns with her mother-in-law, Naomi, to Israel. Naomi lost her husband and two sons...
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Jill Eileen Smith. Revell, $15.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-8007-2037-7
Smith (Daughters of the Promised Land) reimagines the biblical story of Hannah, the prayerful mother of prophet and judge Samuel, with expert attention to historical and cultural detail, as well as emotional sensitivity to the plight of a childless...
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Jill Eileen Smith. Revell, $17.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-80074-479-3
This riveting historical reaches into the pages of the New Testament to reimagine the life of Mary Magdalene. Smith (The Ark and the Dove) paints Mary as a fragile young woman whose mother died young and who is raised mostly by servants while her...
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