She served in women and prayer ministries for twenty years before becoming a full-time writer and speaker. Tessa holds a Master of Divinity from Yale, where she was elected as the co-chair of the Evangelical Fellowship at the Divinity School for one year. Her conversion to Christianity in her twenties changed the course of her life forever.
She then moved to England, where she survived boarding school for girls and fell in love with Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, before moving to the United States permanently. Tessa was born in the Middle East and lived there for the first fourteen years of her life. The Way Home was chosen by Moody Radio SFL for their summer of 2020 book study. Tessa’s first book-length Bible study, The Way Home: God’s Invitation to New Beginnings, based on the book of Ruth, was released in June, 2020, alongside optional videos of the same title. Harvest of Rubies was a finalist for the 2013 ECPA Christian Book Award for fiction. In 2011, after publishing her first novel, Pearl in the Sand, Tessa was named New Author of the Year by the FamilyFiction-sponsored Reader’s Choice Awards. Tessa Afshar is the bestselling author of biblical and inspirational historical fiction, including Land of Silence, which won an INSPY Award and was voted by Library Journal as one of the top five Christian fiction titles of 2016, and Harvest of Gold, which won a Christy Award in the Historical Romance category. After so many years of suffering and disappointment, is it possible that one man could redeem the wounds of body.
Until she hears whispers of a man whose mere touch can heal. Then illness strikes, isolating Elianna from everyone, stripping everything she has left. As her world unravels, she breaks off her betrothal to the only man she will ever love. When another tragedy places Elianna in sole charge of the business, her talent for design brings enormous success, but never the absolution she longs for. After her only brother is killed while in her care, Elianna tries to earn forgiveness by working for her father's textile trade and caring for her family. Įlianna is a young girl crushed by guilt. 2017 INSPY Award winner, general fiction categoryīefore she stole healing by touching the hem of his garment.
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