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Secular humanism has triumphed. Everything the late Victorians believed would bring human happiness has been achieved, but what has been created is a sterile world of crass materialism. And now it is only a small and shrinking underground Church that stands against the "Lord of the World."

The stories of three young people who experience the tumult—in three eras—as new religions are about to be born. Dina is a slave, a weaver for the royalty of Ancient Egypt. Summoned to the royal chamber, Dina learns she will move south with the Queen and the Pharaoh to a bountiful oasis, but far away from her family and her Jewish faith. When Moses, a Hebrew who has deied the Egyptians, comes to visit, Dina must make a choice between the predictable life of a slave, or an uncertain one that promises more by following Moses into the desert.

Ever so slowly Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmland. With the coming of the railroad, the small town of Blessing begins to prosper, and the Bjorklund family is reaping the promised harvest that had lured them from their beloved home in Norway.But for Ingeborg and Haakan, realizing their dreams will not come without a struggle. After their own fields are harvested, Haakan and the neighboring men take the steam engine and the separator on the road, threshing for other homesteaders in return for a portion of their grain.

Captivating and heart–wrenching from start to finish

Mary-Margaret O'Reilly is cleaning the statue of Jesus at Sacred Heart church when she blacks out and wakes with a bloody gash on her head. Rumors that the blood came from the statue's eyes start a religious mania in town and lead Mary-Margaret to a decision that will change everything.

When Naomi Fisher turns her back on one basic duty, the unthinkable happens, and now she feels unworthy to accomplish anything set before her. Is there any redemption for such a failure?

After her widowed mother marries a widower from Lancaster County, PA, Abby inherits her mom's thriving quilt shop in rural Ohio. When she learns her 47-year old mom is pregnant, however, she leaves her store in capable hands, bids her longsuffering fiancé goodbye, and goes to help. But as pregnancy complications threaten to delay Abby's wedding, she receives a double blast of devastating news. In her dispair, Abby can't understand how God could possibly take the shredded fabrick of her life and weave it into a seamless masterpiece.

Anna Marquette has everything to live for. Her daughters are in college and, with the support of Paul, her loving husband, she is pursuing her dream of a career in counseling. Then one night, while on a trip to Orlando, the unimaginable happens. She takes a shortcut to an evening out with Paul and is brutally assaulted. When Anna suspects the attack has left her pregnant, her faith is put to the test.

Reserved contractor Wade Sullivan never expected to fall in love with Starr Parnell or to love her three small kids as if they were his own. But that's exactly what happened. As their wedding draws near, however, tragedy strikes, and Wade must put aside his own grief in order to help Starr's children cope.

With a unique take on their charms and foibles, Carrère follows the ragtag group of early Christians through the tumultuous days of the faith's founding. An expansive meditation on belief, The Kingdom chronicles the advent of a religion and the quest to find a place within it through this sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world.