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An accomplished wordsmith, Tessa Afshar has written Bread of Angels with precision, heart, and purpose. Each well-turned phrase, simile, and scene, serves to immerse readers into Lydia’s first-century life. I read the prologue like one might enjoy the first bite of a decadent cake, and in the same way it left me wanting more!

The book opens in Thyatira (AD 25) and moves to Philippi where it concludes in the year 50 AD. It’s in Thyatira that a great deception takes place which really sets the story into motion. I confess I was neither taken in by Jason’s affections or duped by Dione’s scheming. This was due in part to how Lydia confessed her love for Jason, while contradicted her words by her actions.

A favorite character of mine enters the

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