{"id":19931,"date":"2016-02-16T21:51:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=19931"},"modified":"2016-02-16T21:51:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:51:19","slug":"pharaohs-daughter-by-mesu-andrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=19931","title":{"rendered":"Pharaoh’s Daughter by Mesu Andrews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week, the<\/span><\/center>
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance<\/span><\/a><\/center>
is introducing<\/span><\/center>
Pharaoh’s Daughter<\/a><\/span><\/center>
WaterBrook Press (March 17, 2015)<\/center>
by<\/center>
Mesu Andrews<\/a><\/span><\/center>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
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Mesu Andrews\u2019 deep understanding of and love for God\u2019s Word brings the biblical world alive for her readers. She and her husband, Roy, enjoyed fourteen years of pastoral ministry before moving to the Pacific Northwest, where Roy now serves as Academic Dean at Multnomah Biblical Seminary. Mesu writes full-time, snuggled in her recliner beside a cozy fire on rainy Northwest days. The Andrews\u2019 enjoy visiting their two married daughters and a growing tribe of grandkids. Mesu loves movies, football, waterfalls, and travel.<\/p>\n

Biblical fiction is her favorite genre to read and write. Her first novel, Love Amid the Ashes (Revell, 2011), tells the story of Job and won the 2012 ECPA Book of the Year for a Debut Author.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE BOOK<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cFear is the most fertile ground for faith.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cYou will be called Anippe, daughter of the Nile. Do you like it?\u201d Without waiting for a reply, she pulls me into her squishy, round tummy for a hug.
\nI\u2019m trying not to cry. Pharaoh\u2019s daughters don\u2019t cry.
\nWhen we make our way down the tiled hall, I try to stop at ummi Kiya\u2019s chamber. I know her spirit has flown yet I long for one more moment. Amenia pushes me past so I keep walking and don\u2019t look back. <\/i>
\nLike the waters of the Nile, I will flow.<\/p>\n

Anippe has grown up in the shadows of Egypt\u2019s good god Pharaoh, aware that Anubis, god of the afterlife, may take her or her siblings at any moment. She watched him snatch her mother and infant brother during childbirth, a moment which awakens in her a terrible dread of ever bearing a child. Now she is to be become the bride of Sebak, a kind but quick-tempered Captain of Pharaoh Tut\u2019s army. In order to provide Sebak the heir he deserves and yet protect herself from the underworld gods, Anippe must launch a series of deceptions, even involving the Hebrew midwives\u2014women ordered by Tut to drown the sons of their own people in the Nile.<\/p>\n

When she finds a baby floating in a basket on the great river, Anippe believes Egypt\u2019s gods have answered her pleas, entrenching her more deeply in deception and placing her and her son Mehy, whom handmaiden Miriam calls Moses, in mortal danger.<\/p>\n

As bloodshed and savage politics shift the balance of power in Egypt, the gods reveal their fickle natures and Anippe wonders if her son, a boy of Hebrew blood, could one day become king. Or does the god of her Hebrew servants, the one they call El Shaddai, have a different plan\u2014for them all?<\/p>\n

If you would like to read the first chapter of Pharaoh’s Daughter<\/a>, go HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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