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An astonishing twist of fate aboard a western-bound train enables Madeline Beecher to assume the identity of another woman--though it means marrying someone she's never met. But Maddie's on the run for her life, and wedding a stranger is a far better fate than the one pursuing her. Madeline Beecher is a woman on the run after witnessing a dastardly crime. He A stolen life Her life is in jeopardy--until an astonishing twist of fate aboard a western-bound train enables her to assume the identity of another woman, in order to elude a determined and dangerous pursuer.
As part of her charade, she must marry a man she has never met. Should she shield herself from danger Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Promised to a Stranger , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Promised to a Stranger. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Natasha Caron rated it really liked it Nov 18, Maggie rated it really liked it Jun 01, Others are not so fortunate. One man walks around the streets of southern Tel Aviv with a bullet in his head, a reminder of his tribulations escaping the war-torn Horn of Africa.
And even he could be considered relatively lucky; Haile can name three acquaintances of his who had their kidneys taken by the Bedouins before they were left for dead in the Sinai. Once a textile worker in Eritrea, Haile now works eight to ten hours a day as an assistant chef in a restaurant in Tel Aviv, cooking rice and chicken. He used to be a dishwasher, but moved up the ladder after a kind Israeli showed him how to help in the kitchen. Despite paying rent high enough to cause mass protests, he manages to sock away some money every month and send it home to his family in Eritrea.
In the meantime, his life consists mostly of working, eating, and sleeping. So why did they come to Tel Aviv?
The answer is one all too familiar to most Israelis: In Hebrew, ein brera. Many, if not most, are economic immigrants seeking better opportunities, but others desert military posts or escape immediate persecution. Staying in Eritrea or Egypt is not much of an option. In some cases, runaways head to other destinations, but are kidnapped by Bedouin tribesmen and released in the Sinai desert, with no way out but Israel.
Promised to a Stranger [Linda O'brien, Linda Eberhardt] on donnsboatshop.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The target of a determined and deadly enemy. In Promised to a Stranger Madeline Beecher is faced with just such a dilemma. Running for her life from her vile employer, Maddie meets.
And so immigrants who survive the journey through northern Africa must hit the ground running, navigating the nuances of a society with which they have no connection. How long does Haile plan to stay in Tel Aviv?
Until he can find a better option. Norway, where one of his friends lives well with much more government support. Ablel wants to move to Canada. For the time being, though, Haile, Ablel, and their friends are grounded in Israel. Armed with only a high school education, they work in restaurants and retail stores.
And they are in good company. The numbers are high. An estimated 60, Africans have crossed into Israel since , the majority from Eritrea. Their legal statuses vary. Hundreds of immigrants remain in a detention facility in the Negev Desert near the border with Egypt. Most Eritreans are technically classified as asylum seekers.
Countless others from the region are officially off the books, with no government record of them at all. Many others, frequently Ethiopian job seekers, pretend to be Eritrean in order to be legally classified as asylum seekers. The center of this drama is southern Tel Aviv, a relatively poor part of the city which has become the de facto capital of African migrants. The city is a tease — it comes so tantalizingly close to being part of Europe or the United States. But Florentin is somewhat different. A neighborhood in the southern part of the city, Florentin has long been noted for its unkempt nature and quasi-beatnik vibe.
Many Eritrean and Sudanese migrants have settled either here or in adjacent communities. Do you believe a father would command his children to kill each other? Do you believe a master would command his servants to kill each other? It is the same thing with God. God would never ask His people to kill each other. We are under temptations.
How can we help God if we can't even help ourselves, ignorant? He that soweth the good seed, is the Son of man. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle, are the children of the wicked one. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels. The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear, Matthew God's everlasting covenant with Abraham.
God said to Abraham: However, the Christians don't obey God's Commandments that was spoken by Moses because they abolished God's Law through the false apostle Paul. The Jews believe in Moses and in the Torah. Their doctrines commands them to kill those don't worship allah, Quran sourat altawba 9: The word " mushrekeen " in the quran means "Christians".
The Jews transgress God's Commandments by depraving the strangers to embrace Judaism, which contradicts God's Word in the same book. The Torah doesn't prohibit the strangers to embrace Judaism.
The violence that is in the Torah isn't of God's Word. Those violent passages were added to the Torah after Moses' era. I could be wrong, refer to page "Islamic and bible verses" to read the passages. Why Judaism rejects other religions, and why the Torah contains violent commandment? As a Christian, that follows God and Christ Jesus, not religions; I devoted my life to love and to help mankind disregard their religions and backgrounds.
We were very happy and agreed with these gifts. This word left a question mark in my mind.
If he really did, it is because he wanted to protect his Allah's Word from defiled people as the Christians. I enjoyed reading allah's peaceful passages but I was confused reading some of his passages that contradict his peaceful commandments. The violent commandments aren't to protect people or lands; it is to kill people that DON'T believe in allah and his prophet, and to kill sinners.
I did copy these passages and placed them in this page to get help from whosoever has an answer for these peaceful passages, as my friends claimed. Do these passages indicate the peaceful word of allah? Therefore, I don't believe allah would command his people to kill, crucify, cut hands, and feet of those that are against him and his prophet. The God that Jesus spoke of is Love and Peaceful also. However, Jesus' gospel doesn't contain any violent.
Did Jesus spoke about different law of different torah, and did allah spoke different commandments? Is allah the same God of the Christians and the Jews? If God of the Torah is the same God that Jesus spoke of why the violent commandments exist in the Torah and not in Jesus' gospel?
Did Jesus spoke about different Torah and different God? Al — mushrekeen are the Christians]. However, the Jews are depraving the people to embrace Judaism and to learn the Torah. The Jews believe that their God Yahweh and their Torah are for them only. Some christian churches as the protestant churches in Northern Island kill and reject other christian denominations; they believe that they are the only true christians.
The Catholic Church welcomes all religions of all backgrounds. Concerning obedient, none of the Jews, protestant, and catholic obey God's Law the Torah. God wants obedience not violence. I obey the authentic peaceful Torah and I believe in Jesus Christ. However, I dislike sin and violence. I am NOT encouraging violence, I am debating obedience. However, does this kind of obedience consider faithful, yes, but to their book, not according to peaceful humanity. I would feel safer with peaceful people that worship idols, than with those that are faithful to their book and their god that commands to kill people.
At least those that worship idols don't kill people. Did God announce those violent commandments in the Torah? God has nothing to do with these violent commandments, God is love, He commands us to love, and prohibits us to kill. God Yahweh is God of all mankind; not the God of the Jews and the muslims only. For more information about the violent passages that are in the Torah, refer to page "Ishmael and Isaac". That shall be so ; and if allah had pleased He would certainly have exacted what is due from them, but that He may try some of you by means of others; and as for those who are slain in the way of allah, He will by no means allow their deeds to perish.
We are the sons of allah and His beloved ones. I am not affirming Islam is better religion than Christianity. I am debating obedience, and the violence of religions in this text. Debating the violent commandments is another subject; God judges sinners, not you.
The Torah also commands the Hebrews to kill the Canaanites to overcome their lands, and those that try to deceive them to worship strange gods. But the Torah doesn't commands the Jews to force people to embrace Judaism. References from the Quran of Islam sourat altawba 9: References from the Torah of Judaism Deuteronomy The Torah commands the people to kill in the name of God also, Leviticus The Torah passage reads: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers, 7 Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from one end of the earth to the other, 8 Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him, 9 But thou shalt presently put him to death.