Noah's Wife

Noah's wife is Na'amah, a young girl with what we now know as Asperger Syndrome, who only wishes to be a shepherdess on her beloved hills in ancient Turkey-a desire shattered by the hatred of her powerful brother, the love of two men, and a looming disaster that threatens her world.Noah built an ark-but this story has never been told!My name, Na'amah, means pleasant or beautiful. I am not always pleasant, but I am beautiful. Perhaps that is why I am trundled atop this beast like a roll of hides for market and surrounded by grim-faced men.If my captors had bothered to ask me, I would have told them that their prize is of questionable value because my mind is damaged. But they did not, and I lie draped, belly down, across the back of an auroch, a large black ox with an eel stripe that runs down his spine and a stench worse than a rutting goat. My mouth is parched and swollen with dried blood, and every step the animal takes sends a jolt of pain into my chest. Snatches of ground appear between the cloven hooves-a succession of earth, grass, and rock obscured by the dark tangle of my hair-all I have to measure the growing distance from the life I have known."…an extraordinary work."--Dianne Mooney, founder of Southern Living At HOME"…a terrific storyteller."--Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife"…a novel of epic sweep, emotional power, and considerable beauty."--Ron Golson, The Blount Countian T.K. has written two award-winning historical novels, NOAH'S WIFE and ANGELS AT THE GATE, filling in the untold backstories of extraordinary unnamed women-the wives of Noah and Lot-in two of the world's most famous sagas. The New York Post's "Books You Should Be Reading" list featured her first non-fiction book, LAST CHANCE FOR JUSTICE, which details the investigators' behind-the-scenes stories of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing case. Her next project is HOUSE OF ROSE, the first of a trilogy in the paranormal-crime genre. She loves traveling and speaking about her books and life lessons. T.K. writes at her mountaintop home near Birmingham, Alabama, often with two dogs and a cat vying for her lap. She blogs about "What Moves Me" on her website, TKThorne.com. Join her private newsletter email list and receive a two free short stories at "TK's Korner."