The Nabataean

In The Nabataean, an Arabian prince named Malichus, the son of King Aretas and Queen Elatha of Petra, takes a journey that finds him becoming the object of a sale that leaves him enslaved. In the course of his sojourn, he learns that art of cheating at trade and endures the whims of the gods.

Malichus crosses paths with several women who shape the contours of his life-his mother, a teenage lover, and two wives. Was their guidance merely fate or did God stretch out an unseen hand through the...