(+) The Centurion's Wife (2009 Bunn, Oke), novel
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The Centurion's Wife (2009) is a novel by T. Davis Bunn and Jannette Oke.
Abstract
Leah, a young Jewess of mixed heritage, is secretly commissioned to discover the truth behind the death of an obscure rabbi in the Roman backwater of first-century Palestine while also being engulfed in her own turmoil--facing the prospect of an arranged marriage to a Roman soldier, Alban, who seems to care for nothing but his own ambitions as leader of the Roman garrison near Galilee.
Editions and translations
Published in the United States (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2009).