A trap has been set...by her own foolish heart. A stranger approaches Anna's house in the oppressive heat of the late afternoon before Sabbath. Shielding her eyes against the penetrating rays of the sun, she recognizes the familiar gait and realizes he is no stranger. Her hand trembles as, in a moment of panic, she fleetingly entertains thoughts of grabbing her baby and running. But there is no place to run. Her mind flashes back to the events leading up to the present, and the encounter with Jesus that changed her life and set her on the path of forgiveness.

Marah's life has been difficult. Orphaned and left in the care of a cold step-father, she thought she found escape in marriage...but when tragedy leaves her alone again, with a house full of children to tend, harsh reality sets in. Will Marah ever know joy, or is she destined to live up to her name and be bitter forever? Then one day a stranger visits the well and asks her for a drink of water, a stranger who knows everything she has ever done. And suddenly Marah is given a taste of everything she ever thirsted for.

In a world that would keep her broken… Tirzah was determined not to follow in the footsteps of her mother, and of her mother’s mother before her, into the life of a harlot. But when she is orphaned as a young woman, with no father to provide a dowry or offer protection to her and her dearest friend, a crippled girl, what is she to do but take to the streets? Then news of the teacher named Jesus reaches her, and she dares to believe he can heal her friend…but can he perform the greater miracle of mending the broken pieces inside Tirzah’s soul?

Years without healing...years without hope. Zahava is blessed to have a husband who loves her, and she is ready to give him a house full of children. But when a series of miscarriages leave her with empty arms and an incessant issue of blood, she is cut off from all those she loves. Unclean. Unable to be touched. Her husband never gives up hope that they will find a cure. But hope seems as unattainable as healing to Zahava . . . until a carpenter she once met in Nazareth stirs an ember of faith inside.