The Sword and the Witness

Rothaide couldn’t have known it. But the former slave set the world on the path of eternal chaos the moment she reached for the babe next to his dead mother on the killing fields of Carthage. Because Jamal was not meant to live, any of his deeds could rewrite the past, upend the future, and throw the world into chaos. Only the man who shares his soul stands in his way. But will Luther, a New Jersey history teacher who cannot even manage his own life, be strong enough to impose his will on the great 8th-century Muslim warrior Jamal will grow into? And will he recognize the moment when he needs to act? The Sword and the Witness is a historical-contemporary fantasy that follows the twists and turns in the lives of two men who couldn’t be more different. Until the moment when they — and their times — become one.