The runaway of "The Red Tent revealed reader's fascination with what Marek Halter calls "the feminine Bible"--the stories of the matriarchs, queens, and female prophets of the Scriptures. Now comes "Sarah, an acclaimed international bestseller and the first book of Halter's extraordinary Canaan Trilogy. Sarah was born into a world of great luxury in the Sumerian city-state of Ur, the birthplace of writing, currency, and government. The daughter of a powerful lord, she balks at the arranged marriage her father has planned for her and impulsively flees to the marshes outside the city walls. There she meets the young man Abram, a member of a nomadic tribe of outsiders. Sarah spends one night with him and reluctantly returns to her father's house, where she secretly drinks a potion that will make her barren and thus unfit for the marriage market. When she sees Abram again, many years later, Sarah has been transformed from a rebellious teenager into the most revered woman in Sumeria--the high priestess of the goddess Ishtar. But the memory of their night together had always haunted her, and she gives up her exalted life to join Abram's tribe and follow the one true God, an invisible deity who speaks only on Abram. It is then that her journey truly begins. From the great ziggurat of Ishtar and the fertile valleys of Canaan to the bedchamber of the mighty Pharaoh himself, Sarah's remarkable story reveals an ancient world full of beauty, intrigue, and miracles.