Rescued Heart

by Angela Hunt Book 1 in the The Matriarchs series.

First published 2025

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Ishcah has reached thirty-nine without meeting the man promised to her, yet family obligation finally joins her to Abram, who renames her Sarai and serves an unseen God unlike the household deities she knows. When Abram leaves Mesopotamia in response to Adonai’s command, Sarai must exchange familiarity for migration and trust a promise she did not receive directly.

Years of childlessness make the covenant increasingly painful, and the choices intended to secure an heir produce rivalry and lasting harm. The novel presents Sarah’s faith as neither effortless nor passive: she argues, doubts, protects herself and waits. Rescue comes through God’s fidelity rather than through the social strategies by which her household tries to control the future.