Trials of the Shepherd

Seventy years after the birth of Jesus Christ..... The time has come for Hannah to leave for Rome from Beit Sahour, a valley village in the east of Bethlehem. She reminisces her story entwined with the supernatural stories of Abiyah, a shepherd turned trader, who means a world to her and with the stories of Jesus, her Messiah, whom she knows from His birth. Hannah remembers the transition of her life from poverty to prosperity.... of the inevitable move from Beit Sahour to Jerusalem.... of Abiyah's unusual journey from Palestine to Ophir with a secret mission.... At a later juncture, when she felt that she had become extremely lonely, to her joy, a totally unanticipated event takes place.... A trail that leaps out of earthly time realms is revealed to her.... Soon after the trance like revelation, a horrendous incident shakes Hannah's household... But the victory is imminent...... While in Jerusalem, Hannah had to endure several trying times... Eventually she moves back to Beit Sahour..... A letter from Rome is received. It leads to the long journey; a journey crossing the Great Sea.......... The book, built on a universal platform, has in it, a fusion of ancient and modern languages. It embraces and addresses almost every form of human life and traits across all continents of the earth through different time spans. 'Trails of the Shepherd' makes the human in you smile, laugh, shed tears and muse on the journey of mankind right from the time of creation to eternity...