Jean Hoefling
ASIN: B01N1PPPEE
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 327
Cain’s wife: She is a nameless biblical woman lost in the enigma of the Genesis narrative. Yet what if her journey was not so different from our own?Akliah has grown up in the lush valley of Havilah at the foot of the Holy Mountain where Eden lies. She and the other children of Adam and Eve know the story of their parents’ fall from innocence. And they know the prophecy, that their privileged brother Cain will soon destroy Serpens, who tempted their parents in Eden. In love with Cain, Akliah is determined to become his wife, no matter what she has to compromise. But her schemes evaporate when Cain kills his brother Abel and abducts Akliah to Nod, east of Eden. There Akliah bears Cain’s child and grieves her losses while Cain spirals into ever deepening tiers of delusion through his bondage to a beautiful fallen angel.Against the backdrop of life in Cain’s black city, Akliah must ...