Harvest of Gold by Tessa Afshar

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Harvest of Gold River North; New Edition edition (July 1, 2013) by Tessa Afshar

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

TESSA AFSHAR was voted "New Author of the Year" by the Family Fiction sponsored Reader's Choice Award 2011 for her novel Pearl in the Sand. She was born in Iran, and lived there for the first fourteen years of her life. She moved to England where she survived boarding school for girls and fell in love with Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, before moving to the United States permanently. Her conversion to Christianity in her twenties changed the course of her life forever. Tessa holds an MDiv from Yale University where she served as co-chair of the Evangelical Fellowship at the Divinity School. She has spent the last thirteen years in full-time Christian work.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The scribe Sarah married Darius, and at times she feels as if she has married the Persian aristocracy, too. There is another point she did not count on in her marriage-Sarah has grown to love her husband. Sarah has wealth, property, honor, and power, but her husband's love still seems unattainable.

Although his mother was an Israelite, Darius remains skeptical that his Jewish wife is the right choice for him, particularly when she conspires with her cousin Nehemiah to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Ordered to assist in the effort, the couple begins a journey to the homeland of his mother's people. Will the road filled with danger, conflict, and surprising memories, help Darius to see the hand of God at work in his life-and even in his marriage?

A hidden message, treachery, opposition, and a God-given success, will lead to an unlikely bounty.

If you'd like to read the first chapter of Harvest of Gold, go HERE.

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The book link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802405592

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<div align="center"> <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5500/1432/1600/CFBAreviewer_gif.0.gif"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5500/1432/320/CFBAreviewer_gif.0.gif" style="cursor: hand; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a></div> <center> <span style="font-size: 130%;">This week, the</span></center> <center> <a href="http://www.christianfictionblogalliance.com/"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Christian Fiction Blog Alliance</span></a></center> <center> <span style="font-size: 100%;">is introducing</span></center> <center> <span style="color: #993300; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802405592">Harvest of Gold</a></span></center> <center> River North; New Edition edition (July 1, 2013) </center> <center> by</center> <center> <span style="color: #006600; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.tessaafshar.com/">Tessa Afshar</a></span></center> <br /> <br /> <b><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 100%;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</span></b> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEcD4j4Ebra2eZnPL4uNBnk-a5M2bPNPQvKh0C2zu4EYQDGx1Hjb8_HeAUnVph1VZJTwOeyDeH7exl6R2sl5RWtqOK4TrawDHsKZcDuwN0OrIzFjpAI-RO6lI9FXV-IgsMsXQITw/s1600/tessa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEcD4j4Ebra2eZnPL4uNBnk-a5M2bPNPQvKh0C2zu4EYQDGx1Hjb8_HeAUnVph1VZJTwOeyDeH7exl6R2sl5RWtqOK4TrawDHsKZcDuwN0OrIzFjpAI-RO6lI9FXV-IgsMsXQITw/s200/tessa.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a></div> <br /> TESSA AFSHAR was voted "New Author of the Year" by the Family Fiction sponsored Reader's Choice Award 2011 for her novel Pearl in the Sand. She was born in Iran, and lived there for the first fourteen years of her life. She moved to England where she survived boarding school for girls and fell in love with Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, before moving to the United States permanently. Her conversion to Christianity in her twenties changed the course of her life forever. Tessa holds an MDiv from Yale University where she served as co-chair of the Evangelical Fellowship at the Divinity School. She has spent the last thirteen years in full-time Christian work.<br /> <br /> <b><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 100%;">ABOUT THE BOOK</span></b> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VWr7-gP76p9f4HafHdqLmb3PWDDZ1T5alc-xfSMZ-J-JunpMtXTmGaMt1Xx8LQPXJZcHl4mFAcPcnAdgrpIOFcXqHwaXEv0x44hxdNp2KuFpUQgqM6Jnu3hsWScOfm2gPxdAcw/s1600/Harvest+of+Gold.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VWr7-gP76p9f4HafHdqLmb3PWDDZ1T5alc-xfSMZ-J-JunpMtXTmGaMt1Xx8LQPXJZcHl4mFAcPcnAdgrpIOFcXqHwaXEv0x44hxdNp2KuFpUQgqM6Jnu3hsWScOfm2gPxdAcw/s1600/Harvest+of+Gold.png" height="200" width="134" /></a></div> The scribe Sarah married Darius, and at times she feels as if she has married the Persian aristocracy, too. There is another point she did not count on in her marriage-Sarah has grown to love her husband. Sarah has wealth, property, honor, and power, but her husband's love still seems unattainable.<br /> <br /> Although his mother was an Israelite, Darius remains skeptical that his Jewish wife is the right choice for him, particularly when she conspires with her cousin Nehemiah to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Ordered to assist in the effort, the couple begins a journey to the homeland of his mother's people. Will the road filled with danger, conflict, and surprising memories, help Darius to see the hand of God at work in his life-and even in his marriage?<br /> <br /> A hidden message, treachery, opposition, and a God-given success, will lead to an unlikely bounty. <br /> <br /> If you'd like to read the first chapter of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802405592">Harvest of Gold</a>, go <a href="http://thestorybeginnings.blogspot.com/2013/07/harvest-of-gold-by-tessa-afshar.html">HERE</a>.<br /> <br />

Tessa can be reached through the Contact link on her Website

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