Confused and alone, she has only her faith to cling to as she tries to subtly bring God into the lives of her captors.

Hadassah struggles to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and to treat her masters in a manner in keeping with His teachings, but she is forced to keep her religious identity a secret in order to survive. Brought to Rome, she is pressed into service as a personal slave to hedonistic Julia Valerian. After surviving the massacre of her family and the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, Hadassah is captured and sold to a well-to-do merchant’s family. Following the prides and passions of a group of Jews, Romans and Barbarians living at the time of the siege, the narrative is centered on an ill-fated romance between a steadfast slave girl, Hadassah, and Marcus, the brother of her owner and a handsome aristocrat. “The city was silently bloating in the hot sun, rotting like the thousands of bodies that lay where they had fallen in street battles.” With this opening sentence, A Voice in the Wind transports readers back to Jerusalem during the first Jewish-Roman War, some seventy years after the death of Christ. I’ll give you the synopsis and then my thoughts. This book is Christian historical fiction and honestly one of the best books I’ve read and not just in this genre, but in general.

I decided to pick up the first book, A Voice in the Wind, in a three part series, Mark of the Lion. It was just kind of boring and a typical “cheesy” Christian romance BUT I am so glad I didn’t decide to write off all books by this author. Up until recently I had only read one other book by Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love, and I did not care for it.

A voice in the wind by francine rivers