very good

It was a wonderful book, set in bible times. A fictional look at how they were real people. ^M

A great culturally enriched love story.

Abigail's Story is a fictitious novel based upon a little known but none the less important women from the Bible. Wonderfully blended with cultural enrichment from the era of King Saul , this reader found herself immersed into the day of a life of a poor potters daughter who's father riddled with what we know today as arthritis can no longer work the clay. Yet she provided for her family as she sales the clay she secretly turns herself. Events turn when she is forced to throw herself at the feet of the selfish, greedy,brutal Nabal as wife to pay off her brothers gambling debt lest her and her elderly parents by law be sold into slavery. Abigail's bravery bred out of necessity continues as the story once again takes a new direction as the "city girl" goes to the hills of Paran and must face the people her heartless husband starves as they tend his flocks. While carving a life among the herdsman and their clan she must ignore her heart that beats for the mysterious wandering Dal in the blue mantle. She is torn when she finally faces David, giant slayer, outlaw and future King of her people as commanded by the Adonai (Lord). Though she may be married to a monster she is still a married woman and must not commit adultery even if her husband rather see her dead. So when she must put her life at risk to intervene for the man she loves and for the people who have become her family only the one true Adonai can spare them.^M

terrific biblical biographical fiction

When her father Oren who taught her to believe in Adonai and to make pottery, no longer could walk to the market, Abigail took over those chores as her older brother Rivai who should have done so was too much the foolish dreamer. Still she dreams of marrying for love and raising children together while worshipping Adonai.^M