Song of Songs:
A Novel of the Queen of Sheba
By Marc Graham
Lift the veil of legend for the untold
story of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, and Bathsheba, wife and mother of Israel’s
first kings.
When Makeda, the slave-born daughter of
the chieftain of Saba, comes of age, she wins her freedom and inherits her
father's titles along with a crumbling earthwork dam that threatens her
people's survival. When she learns of a great stone temple being built in a land
far to the north, Makeda leads a caravan to the capital of Yisrael to learn how
to build a permanent dam and secure her people's prosperity.
On
her arrival, Makeda discovers that her half-sister Bilkis (also known as
Bathsheba) who was thought to have died in a long-ago flash flood, not only
survived, but has become Queen of Yisrael. Not content with her own wealth,
Bilkis intends to claim the riches of Saba for herself by forcing Makeda to
marry her son. But Bilkis’s designs are threatened by the growing attraction
between Makeda and Yetzer abi-Huram, master builder of Urusalim’s famed temple.
Will Bilkis’s plan succeed or will Makeda and Yetzer outsmart her and find
happiness far from her plots and intrigue?
Marc
Graham
Marc
Graham is pledging half of the proceeds from his latest book Song of Songs: A Novel of the Queen of Sheba
to Yemen humanitarian relief in partnership with the Zakat Foundation of
America, who will match his donation. Graham’s first novel, Of Ashes and Dust, won the Paul Gillette
Memorial Writing Contest and National Writers Association Manuscript
Contest.
He is an actor, speaker, story coach, shamanic practitioner, and whisky
aficionado. When not on stage, in a pub, or bound to his computer, Graham can
be found traipsing about the foothills and mountains with his wife and their
Greater Swiss Mountain Dog. Learn more at https://www.marc-graham.com/.
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