Angels At The Gate
T.K. Thorne
Cappuccino Books Publishing, Mar 5 2015, $22.50
www.cappuccinobooks.com
ISBN: 9783906196022
In 1748 BCE, Zakiti the merchant raises his fifteen summers old
daughter Akira as a boy. Akira loves the
freedom a male has; which a female can only envy. After meeting two strangers (Mika and Raph)
that the tribe believes are God’s messengers, Akira finds she is attracted to
one of them; an emotion that confuses her.
Meanwhile her fretting father regrets he failed to ask his sister-in-law
Sarai to raise his teenage daughter as a female instead of giving her a male’s
run of the caravan he leads; especially knowing what will happen to her if she
is found out. Reluctantly he informs
Akira she must claim her birthright as a woman.
Stunned Akira prefers the independence of a boy; as she knows her
freedom ends once she comes out of male garb.
With Nami the dog protecting her, Akira begins a journey of
self-discovery that leads her to tribal patriarch Abram’s nephew Lot in Sodom.
Filled with a remarkable interwoven detailed look into the culture
of Abram’s tribe and life in a trade caravan, the second mysterious woman of
the bible dramatization (see Noah’s Wife) provides a fascinating look at who Lot’s
wife was before she turned into the Pillar of Salt. The key to this entertaining biblical
novelization is T.K. Thorne provides a plausible
background that explains why Lot's wife would disobey the angelic warning not
to look back.
Harriet Klausner
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