She is also increasingly getting sicker by the day. Celebah, her once devoted friend teases her, laughs at her, and abandoned her as soon as she befriends another young girl. He has used all her inherited money and they are near bankruptcy. We find that she is still married to Primus but that in of itself is starting to crumble. But I really think he wanted to go because he needed to grieve and heal. He wants to see Hadassah’s home and where she grew up.

He then has the idea to go visit Judea and the ruins of Jerusalem. His mother begs him to forgive Julia but he refuses. He doesn’t want anything to do with his sister, Julia, who sent Hadassah to the lions in the first place. He can’t stop thinking about her and what happened to her. Marcus in the beginning is absolutely devastated after Hadassah’s presumed death. Like she is still meant to do something with her life.

As the story goes on she feels something missing. Hadassah finds peace as a doctor and enjoys helping others. Alexander has kept Hadassah a secret and she wears a veil to conceal her scars and face. Then the story is fast-forwarded to a year later. She is severely wounded and is healed by a physician named Alexander. We find out that Hadassah has survived the lion attack in the amphitheater. The book starts right after the events from the last book. I have been wanting to read the second book in the series for some time and I finally had the time to read it! If you haven’t read my review of the first book in the series, Voice in the Wind, you will now know that it is my absolute favorite book of the last couple of years. When Julia falls ill, Hadassah is forced to confront a difficult decision: should she return to the Valerian household, risking exposure and death, to help her former tormentor in the Christian tradition?Ĭontinuing to search for meaning and faith, Marcus turns away from the opulence of Rome, led by a whispering voice from the past into a journey that could set him free from the darkness of his soul.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and A Voice in the Wind comes the “compelling” and “emotionally charged” ( Booklist, starred review) second installment of the story of Hadassah, a courageous Christian slave girl with unrelenting faith, and Marcus, the Roman aristocrat who claims her heart.īelieved dead, Hadassah finds employment helping a doctor in the poor section of first-century Rome and discovers an ability to heal others through the power of her faith.

An echo in the darkness book