What makes someone family—blood, love, or something more?
Arielle believed she was an Israelite—until her brother confessed the truth: she was found as an infant on their doorstep in Moab. After tragedy strikes and the men of her household are snatched away, Arielle must leave the only land she’s ever known and any hope of finding her birth family to follow her adopted family to Bethlehem. But Bethlehem is not the land of plenty described in the stories of God’s promises once told to Arielle by her beloved adopted father.
Treated as outsiders, they must scrape together a life among people who barely tolerate them. The God of Israel is said to protect the orphan and the widow—but what happens when His people reject His laws? As Arielle wrestles with loss, identity, and the silence of a God she’s unsure how to trust, one question haunts her: if her own birth parents abandoned her, why wouldn’t a foreign God do the same?
To belong, Arielle must choose where her loyalty lies—between the past that shaped her and the God who might yet have a purpose for her future.
Abandoned. Unseen. Not forgotten.
Christine Dillon has done it again, bringing Old Testament places and people to life in ways that my modern Western mind can grasp.
–Goodreads Reviewer
This series just keeps getting better. A wonderful retelling of the story of Naomi and Ruth.
–Goodreads Reviewer
My favorite part of every Christine Dillon book is that it challenges me to grow in some way. To live well. To make the most of every opportunity. This book is no exception.
–Goodreads Reviewer
