The Ruby Ring: Battle for an English Bible (Reformation - A Family Divided) - Softcover

Rees, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 198375305X ISBN 13: 9781983753053

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

2014 National Indie Excellence Award Finalist. THE BATTLE BEGINS. The year is 1524. William Tyndale makes the fateful decision to produce an English Testament without Church permission. He knows that a vernacular scripture will free the common people from spiritual domination by a corrupt and ignorant clergy. If Tyndale is caught, he'll die at the stake. So will anyone found assisting him. Owen Alton, a London grocer's heir, catches Tyndale's vision. But if he helps Tyndale, he'll be disinherited and lose Jane Horne, the minor-knight's stepdaughter he loves. Jane has defied her family in her desire to wed Owen. If he now should leave her for Tyndale.... As if she didn't have enough troubles, Jane discovers the shocking secret behind her mother's ruby ring.

About this title

About the Author

Karen Rees exchanged her life as an Oklahoma farmer's daughter for SE Asian"big city" life when she and her second-generation missionary husband Benjamin began mission work in Hong Kong in 1975.

Over the years they've worked with local Chinese, household servants imported from the Philippines, and Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers.As a result, she's eaten chicken's feet, baby octopus cooked in its own ink, barbecued pig's ear, and several other delicacies she chose not to ask about.

Karen is the mother of two, grandmother of three, an avid reader, quilter,writer, lover of history, and a continual learner.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 198375305X
• ISBN 13: 9781983753053
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292