Author Maggie Anton has created a historical novel filled with adventure and romance that is true to the Torah and to history.
Through vivid descriptions of everyday living, epic battles, and a colorful cast of characters, Anton's The Midwives Escape: From Egypt to Jericho brings to life the Israelites' flight from slavery, across the Sea of Reeds, and through the wilderness to the Promised Land.
Asenet and Shifra, an Egyptian midwife and her apprentice daughter, wake up on the morning of the tenth plague to find Asenet's husband and son, both firstborns, dead. Awed by the power of the Israelites' god, Asenet's family flees Egypt to Mount Sinai.
After receiving God's commandments there, the two midwives join the Israelites on their forty-year journey, tending to the wounded, falling in love, sharing hardships, and ultimately establishing a new home and a new generation.