A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion #1)

by Francine Rivers

“You have whatever strength God has given you, and it will be enough to carry out his good purpose. Trust in him.”

Sometimes, in the stillness of night, when the silence was so heavy it rang in her ears, she lay as close beside Decimus as possible, holding him. And she prayed desperately, not to her own gods, but to the unseen god of a slave girl.

“Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we’ve nothing worth living for.”