Mary's Dog

The angel Gabriel has come and gone. Now Mary, a very real teen-age mother-to-be, quickly leaves home on a six-day journey across Israel to visit her relative, Elizabeth. In this imaginative novel, Mary befriends a Roman war-dog on the caravan. He becomes her guardian, sent to protect her from wolves, a hostile bully, an attempted assault, and a band of armed thieves. We see her through the dog’s watchful eyes as she touches the lives of the people she meets on the road.

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