Thief In Paradise

By Linda Cook

"Take him away," said the commander. Eli struggled to get away, but his captors held him tightly and were already securing his hands with a rope. "You can't do this to me," he yelled trying to wrench away. He turned in time to see one of his accusers drop money into the hand of the commander. How does a common young shepherd find himself chained up in the belly of a Roman galley ship sailing farther and farther away from his widowed mother and young sisters back in Jerusalem? After the death of his father, Eli's life takes a direction far from anything he could have imagined. On his journey, he meets the boy Jesus, the beautiful Rachel, whose father is a wealthy merchant named Judah, and Cassius, a brutal Roman Commander who holds the secret to Eli's freedom. Along the way, he learns about hatred - deep and unrelenting, but also about hope, love, and from Jesus, the meaning of true sacrifice. Thief in Paradise is a book about forgiveness and hope in the face of despair. It is a story of common people making uncommon sacrifices for the cause of truth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1791502806
• ISBN13: 9781791502805
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"