The Time of Jacob's Trouble (The Samson Option series)

Star-crossed lovers embroiled in a diabolical triangle between the Mossad, the Vatican, and the Mahdi Brotherhood, Ari and Lily return to Israel hiding from both the Mossad and the Mahdi’s henchmen. Living undercover as a nun and monk in the abandoned monastery of St, John in the Wilderness they encounter an American archaeologist who will impact their lived in ways never anticipated.

Sharon Geyer lived and worked in Iran and Israel from 1963 to 1989. She returned to the United States in 1989 and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Arizona State University. The author of Daughter of Jerusalem: An American Woman's Journey of Faith (FaithWalk Publishing, 2003), and The Samson Option (FaithWalk Publishing 2004), Geyer is at work on the final book in The Samson Option trilogy, entitled The Return of the Mahdi. She lives in California with her husband, an archaeobotanist and research fellow at the Zinman Institute.