A Lineage of Grace by Francine Rivers is a compilation of the stories of five women in the Bible who are listed as part of the lineage of Jesus: Mary, Bathsheba, Ruth, Rahab, and Tamar. The author delves into the challenges that each woman faced, with the personal risk involved in fulfilling their individual calling, [...]
The Atonement Child is a novel by Francine Rivers that attempts to take a solid insight into abortion. The story becomes all the more complicated as Dynah Carey is faced with a pregnancy not by premarital sex with a boyfriend but conceived by rape, posing a challenge to the people surrounding her about what they [...]
A Voice in the Wind is the first historical novel in the Mark of the Lion trilogy by Francine Rivers. The story traces the journey of Hadassah, a Christian in the timeframe after the explosion of the early church, who is bought as a slave to a pagan Roman family. She wounds up torn by [...]
The Scarlet Thread is a novel by Francine Rivers, tracing the story of Sierra, who runs head-on to marital troubles and finds a handcrafted quilt owned by an ancestor named Mary Katherine in the midst of her own struggles with her family life. She also winds up reading the journal of that ancestor, and she [...]
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers is a story set in the 1850s that emulates the story of Hosea in the Bible. The characters include a woman named Angel who grows up with betrayal from all the men in her life, ending up with her being sold into prostitution and being wooed by a farmer named [...]