The Golden Verses

By Barbara Miller

So declares the old bookseller as he shuffles into Charles's bookshop. He unloads what appear to be beat-up and worthless Bibles on the hapless Charles, proclaiming that certain people in the small town need the books desperately. He promises that when the passages printed in gold are read, the scriptures come to life.

Among the six people to buy the Bibles are Theo Atwood, an agnostic mortician whose business is suddenly threatened by a new, believing undertaker; Lottie Mariah, a hairdresser with a dubious reputation who yearns for true friendship; Nancy Rutledge, a recent widow with a shameful secret; William Hicken, a greedy banker obsessed with counting and acquisition; Charles himself, whose generosity is deplored by his shrewish wife; and Dory, Charles's young assistant, who learns that the Bibles are accompanied by a dark and threatening adversary.

The Golden Verses, a tale of good versus evil, is as old as time and as familiar as your face in the mirror.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555179460
• ISBN13: 9781555179465
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Cedar Fort
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

I couldn't put this book down!

This was a great read! An old man sells six, aged Bibles to a village bookstore, saying that there are several people in town who need these Bibles. The Bibles are special--they contain passages printed in gold ink that come to life when one reads them, forever changing the reader's life. However, there is someone else lurking around who also wants the Bibles--at any cost. The plot, suspenseful with unexpected turns, kept me riveted to the pages. The language is superb. There were many places I had to look up and say to myself, "That's clever--I've never heard it put that way!" One of my favorite passages related to William, the banker: "It was too bad he had never thought of visiting a psychiatrist. The rich fields of his obsessions would have invited years of lobal plowing (p. 49)." I read the book a few months ago, and still have flashbacks of some of the characters and the scenes in the book, just as if I had been there. The message I got: The scriptures reveal to us how we can all overcome our old selves. I purchase many Christian-themed books and lend them out to friends, so this was a great book to add to my collection.