Samantha of Samaria (Paperback)

Samantha's life resembles the broken lamp she finds on her floor one morning - shattered and useless. Overcome by loneliness and despair, she makes her way to the local well to draw water - after the other women in the village have returned to their homes. At the well, Samantha meets a man who seems to feel the depth of her pain and hurt - though she's sure they've never met before.

David's parents named him for Israel's greatest king, but their son grows up to be nothing like his royal namesake. After insulting his kind and generous father, David leaves home with his inheritance. Only when he's lost it all does he seek the company of Samantha, the town's "fallen" woman. Even there, however, he knows no peace, no satisfaction. Still searching, he eventually finds what he's been longing for. And while Samantha's life is being transformed at a well, David's is redeemed in a pigpen.