The Wound of Shiloh: Book One of in Those Days There Was No King - Softcover

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In those days Israel had no king, and every man did as he saw fit.

After the tribe of Benjamin is nearly destroyed, the surviving men are given a terrible solution: hide in the vineyards of Shiloh and seize wives from among the dancing daughters of Israel.

Abishua, a young survivor of Benjamin, enters the vineyard already burdened by grief, shame, and fear. When he sees Mahlah, daughter of Shiloh, he does not see an answer to Benjamin’s wound. He sees a person. And when a crueler man marks her for himself, Shua acts—not righteously, not cleanly, but desperately.

He takes her.

Mahlah loses the life she expected in a single night: her dance, her home, her future, and her place among her people. Furious, clear-eyed, and unbroken, she refuses to become merely a victim of what has been done to her. Shua must now bear the weight of his choice, providing for the woman he wronged while refusing to claim the power that broken men and broken laws have placed in his hands.

In the wilderness, amid hunger, danger, grief, and the long shadow of Israel’s moral collapse, two wounded souls are forced to face a question neither of them can answer easily:

Can love grow out of chaos?

In Those Days There Was No King is a biblical historical novel about sin and restraint, agency and honor, trauma and restoration, and the fragile possibility that even in a lawless age, righteousness may still begin with one person choosing not to add wrong to wrong.

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