Several generations after the beautiful Moabite widow Ruth marries Boaz, fifteen-year-old Osnath, a young woman from Ramah, comes to Bethlehem to spend time with relatives and to uncover the
true story of Ruth, only to fall prey to the seduction of her cousin Eliab as she learns that Ruth had an unnamed lover before her marriage to Boaz. By the author of The Song of Hannah.
Original. 40,000 first printing.