Betrayal, Exile, Forbidden Love in Ancient Egypt
Loved by his father. Hated by his brothers. Sold to Egypt for silver.
Joseph is seventeen when his brothers tear the coat from his back, throw him into a dry well, and sell him to a caravan bound for Egypt. Weeks later he stands in a slave market of the Nile delta, bought by Potiphar, captain of Pharaoh's guard, in a city ruled by Hyksos kings.
This is the story of Joseph from the book of Genesis—told in full as historical fiction, but faithful to Scripture—set in the real world of ancient Egypt.
But it is not Joseph's story alone. Four lives are woven together here, and together they carry the whole:
- Potiphar, rising through Pharaoh's court and drawn into the deadly politics of a great power—until he uncovers a conspiracy that reaches for the throne itself.
- Zuleika, a young priest's daughter given by Pharaoh to Potiphar as his wife, who watches and waits and tries to win her husband's love—until something inside her breaks.
- Jacob, far away, mourning his beloved Rachel and holding together a house of twelve sons and their sisters, already cracking under favouritism, betrayal, and the hunger for power.
- And Joseph at the centre—field slave turned steward, marked by dreams he cannot explain and a faith that God has not forgotten him.
Their stories cross and pull at one another until they become one—a mounting drama of palace intrigue, forbidden love, faith and survival, where a single whisper can send a man to the executioner, or to the throne.
Sensual rather than explicit. For readers of Hilary Mantel, Madeline Miller, and Anita Diamant.
Book 1 of the Joseph Trilogy.
