Counted with the Stars

By Connilyn Cossette

Subjects: Women, Conditions sociales, Biblical Fiction, Church history, Plagues, Historical fiction, The Exodus, God, Judaism, Social conditions, History, Jews

Description: Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middle of it all. Choosing to flee with the Hebrews, Kiya finds herself reliant on a strange God and drawn to a man who despises her people. With everything she's ever known swept away and now facing the trials of the desert, will she turn back toward Egypt or surrender her life and her future to Yahweh?