num_pages: 302
description: Jerusha a young Jewish widow in first century Jerusalem needs a father for her sons. Effah a powerful and dark figure from her childhood offers marriage. Even though his proposal will save her inheritance from being ripped away by the corrupt Jewish priests she remembers Effahs abuse when she served as a slave in Herods palace. Effahs not the father she wants for her sons.Antonius an aloof Roman soldier with ghosts in his past befriends her sons. A follower of the Way he waits in the shadows for her love while she wrestles with trusting Father Gods mysterious plan.Will she succumb to Effah and marry a man she despises to save her sons inheritance? Or in a culture where Jews hate Romans accept by faith the wisdom offered by a royal father?Jerusalem AD 59. Jerusha a widow in need of a father for her sons wrestles with Gods mysterious plan. Effah the corrupt priests son? Antonius a Roman soldier? Or neither?
language: English
title: A Royal Father
publisher: Carpenter's Son Publishing