Tessa Afshar

First-century Corinth is a city teeming with commerce and charm. It's also filled with danger and corruption--the perfect setting for Ariadne's greatest adventure. After years spent living with her mother and oppressive grandfather in Athens, Ariadne runs away to her father's home in Corinth, only to discover the perilous secret that destroyed his marriage: though a Greek of high birth, Galenos is the infamous thief who has been robbing the city's corrupt of their ill-gotten gains. Desperate to keep him safe, Ariadne risks her good name, her freedom, and the love of the man she adores to become her father's apprentice. As her unusual athletic ability leads her into dangerous exploits, Ariadne discovers that she secretly revels in playing with fire. But when the wrong person discovers their secret, Ariadne and her father find their future--and very lives--hanging in the balance. When they befriend a Jewish rabbi named Paul, they realize that his radical message challenges everything they've fought to build, yet offers something neither dared hope for. Be transported back in time by this gripping tale of adventure, bravery, and redemption, and discover why Debbie Macomber says, "No one brings the Bible to life like Tessa Afshar."

Thief of Corinth

Moriah Howard

“He has set his affections on you, though he knows your every weakness. The broken and the good in you. His love makes you whole. No man can give you this. Only God."

“There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.”

“This God did not move in half measures. He did not want to hold my hand; he wanted to have my soul. He wanted me. The broken and the good in me. And he wanted to love me whole. What I had always hungered for, he wanted to give me. But the price was my life. The end of defiance and self-rule. The end of arrogance and vanity. He wanted a child who would burrow her face in his neck and trust him with her broken future.”

“The Lord has set his affections on you, and that imparts more value on you than all the stars in the heavens.”

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