The Silk Merchant of SycharOne woman, five husbands and the weary rabbi at the well who knows everything she ever did. The day after they bury her husband, Leah Marcellus loses her baby. A widow and childless, what man will want her now? Her father arranges a second marriagea profitable business arrangementsealed on Mount Gerizim, the holy mountain where every true follower of Yahweh worships, but Leah's heart belongs to another. Her passion only brings troublejealousy, murder