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Informationen zum Autor Lynn Austin has sold more than one and a half million copies of her books worldwide. A former teacher who now writes and speaks full-time, she has won eight Christy Awards for her historical fiction. One of those novels, Hidden Places , has also been made into a Hallmark Channel movie. Lynn and her husband have raised three children and make their home in western Michigan. Learn more at LynnAustin.org. Klappentext He has achieved enormous wealth and power--yet there is no heir. The legacy Hezekiah has established as one of Judah's great leaders is threatened: his beloved wife, Hephzibah, remains barren. Desperate to provide a successor to her husband's throne, Hephzibah makes a forbidden pact with the fertility goddess Asherah. Feeling repulsed and betrayed by her act of idolatry, Hezekiah destroys the pagan shrine. But in his rage, he himself is critically injured. As Hezekiah struggles to redeem his wife and save his nation, the aged prophet Isaiah arrives with divine instructions for the king to put his house in order and choose a successor. With his life--and the future of his kingdom--hanging in the balance, Hezekiah once more cries out to the Lord . . . Zusammenfassung God has rewarded Hezekiah's faithfulness with great wealth and power! but the king has much more to overcome. Will his faith sustain him against the ultimate enemy?
