Teaser Tuesday/First Chapter First Paragraph - Slender Reeds

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Jenn at Books and Beat. To play along, just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers!
• Share the title and author, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers! 

Jochebed nodded. Of course she remembered. But Abraham had been ancient when the promises were kept, and Jacob had been old, too. Perhaps the Lord only cared about very old people.
~Slender Reeds: Jochebed's Hope by Texie Susan Gregory, page 36

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First Chapter/First Paragraph/Tuesday Intros is a weekly link-up hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea. To participate, share the first paragraph (or two) of a book you're reading, or thinking about reading.

Prologue

   Outside, the hot urgency of survival pulsed. But in the thatched hut, where only a stray sunbeam found entrance, all was quiet. The child slept, his stomach rising and falling with each breath, his chin promising dimples, his lips puckering gently.

   Her son.

   Son. A word once bursting with joy and celebration now conjured specters of cold-eyed crocodiles and stone-faced guards - both demanding the destruction of her baby. This son was a birth she would not celebrate, a child she should not have, a secret she could not keep.

Here's the blurb:

Four hundred years in slavery, the Hebrew people await deliverance . . . And while it is still dark, God is at work.

Jochebed's entire life has been a faith journey as she seeks her mother's God. The daughter of a Hebrew slave and master basket weaver, Jochebed knows the stories of her ancestors but wonders if the Lord cares how they suffer under the hand of Pharaoh Ramses . . . and if the promised deliverance will ever really come.

Ramses, warned of Egypt's destruction, vows to do whatever is necessary to protect his two great loves, Egypt and Nefertari, unaware that satisfying one will sacrifice the other.

Shiphrah, the half-Egyptian midwife tasked to kill Hebrew male infants, yearns for a place to belong and remembers childhood stories of a merciful God.

Doubts are a constant companion to Jochebed, but her foundation of faith leads her to defy the most powerful man in the world in a deadly race to save her son and, ultimately, God's chosen people.

What do you think? Would you continue reading?

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