Arabia! the Well: Book One of Saga

No one is born a slave. They only tell you that you were.At a cluster of wells in the Arabian desert, a family survives by an unbreakable law: give water to whoever holds the sword, and live to serve the next. For four hundred years it has kept them alive. It is about to be tested by the largest force the world has ever seen.Rayya was left in the sand to die as an infant - and lived to become the conscience of her house. Awf, the keeper who feels nothing, will end a religion with eleven blows of a mattock and be frightened by how little it costs him. Habte, carried across the sea in chains as a boy, will find at these wells the one thing no one can sell or take again. And when word arrives of a preacher in a distant city who says the buried daughters will be asked, by God, why they were killed - everything the desert has ever believed begins to crack.THE WELL opens Arabia!, a seven-book saga following one family through thirteen centuries - from the first well in the sand to the oil that would remake the world. Love that cannot be spoken. Loyalties that cannot survive. A brother who rides west and vanishes into history for eight hundred years.For readers of James Michener, Ken Follett, and Colleen McCullough - a sweeping, intimate epic of faith, survival, and the buried things a family carries across the centuries.Seven books. One family. Thirteen hundred years. It starts at the well.