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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    August 2010
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • Can a Canaanite harlot who has made her livelihood by looking desirable to men make a fitting wife for one of the leaders of Israel? Shockingly, the Bible's answer is yes. Pearl in the Sand tells Rahab's untold story. Rahab lives in a wall; her ...



  • The prophet Nehemiah's cousin can speak numerous languages, keep complex accounts, write on rolls of parchment and tablets of clay, and solve great mysteries. There is only one problem: she is a woman. In her early childhood years, Sarah experienc...



  • A hidden message, treachery, opposition, and a God-given success will lead to an unlikely bounty.In Harvest of Gold (Book 2), the scribe Sarah married Darius, and at times she feels as if she has married the Persian aristocracy, too. There is anoth...



  • TWO WOMEN. ALONE. WITH NO PROVISION. Can a woman who has lost everything, except her beloved mother, find hope in a foreign land? With lost love, a barren womb, and an empty future, Ruth leaves her home after losing her husband to follow the woma...



  • Before Christ called her daughter... Before she stole healing by touching the hem of his garment... Elianna is a young girl crushed by guilt. After her only brother is killed while in her care, Elianna tries to earn forgiveness by working for h...



  • Purple. The foundation of an influential trade in a Roman world dominated by men. One woman rises up to take the reins of success in an incredible journey of courage, grit, and friendship. And along the way, she changes the world. But before she w...



  • First-century Corinth is a city teeming with commerce and charm. It’s also filled with danger and corruption―the perfect setting for Ariadne’s greatest adventure. After years spent living with her mother and oppressive grandfather in Athens,...



  • A woman with a devastating secret. A man bent on proving his worth. A chance encounter that catapults them into the heart of history. When the daughter of a prominent Roman general meets a disinherited Jewish immigrant, neither one can dream of Go...



  • Whispered secrets about her parents’ past take on new urgency for Chariline as she pays one last visit to the land of her forefathers, the ancient kingdom of Cush.Raised as an orphan by her aunt, Chariline has only been told a few pieces of her...






  • From the bestselling author of Jewel of the Nile comes the thrilling tale of a woman who feels she has no future but soon discovers the fate of nations may rest in her hands.The beloved daughter of Jewish captives in Babylon, Keren is sold into Danie...



  • Jemmah has always thought of herself as perfectly ordinary . . . until she faces extraordinary circumstances.When her mother, the Persian king’s famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territor...



  • After gaining a position in Queen Esther's kitchens, Roxannah discovers her dream job is fraught with palace intrigue. She must partner with Adin, the Jewish royal physician never far from her thoughts, in a race to save the life of a princess . . . ...


Award-Winning Books by Tessa Afshar

Harvest of Gold
2014 Christy Award -- Historical Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tessa Afshar has published 12 books.

The next book by Tessa Afshar, The Queen's Cook, will be published in November 2024.

The first book by Tessa Afshar, Pearl in the Sand, was published in August 2010.

No. Tessa Afshar does not write books in series.