Lock by Lock

Book excerpt: "And in that moment past all doubt I knew: No one will ever love me as this man. No one will ever trust me as this man. No one will ever dream that I could be As much as Samson still believed I am. And I knew just as surely that I would Betray him when again my country called." Samson's foreign wife Delilah goes down in the Bible as an evil temptress who destroyed a warrior-prophet. She is vilified as a symbol of the danger of the danger of foreign gods and the folly of trusting the enemy. As proof positive that women will separate righteous men from God. Here Delilah tells her side of the story: how she married, for the sake of her country, the most fearful warrior of the opposing side. How even as she fell for him, she chose her duty to her people. How she tried to get him killed three times before learning his secret, and how she survived as his beloved wife despite these betrayals. Most of all, she shares what it cost her to cut away the locks that bound them together, the locks that gave Samson his strength, and the locks that came to stand for everything they built between them. A novella written in blank verse, giving Delilah the voice she has been denied.