The Love of Divena

India 1990. In the final book of the Blessings of India series, Shridula, old and stooped at fifty-nine, makes her painful way to pay homage to the elephant god Ganesh, lord of success and destroyer of evils and obstacles. “Why are we Hindus instead of Christians?” her seventeen-year-old granddaughter Divena asked.

“Because we are Indian,” said Shridula.

So begins a spiritual journey for Divena as she struggles against an entire culture to proclaim a faith close to her heart while rocking the world of two families.

The Love of Divena brings Kay Marshall Strom's Blessings in India series of Christian historical fiction to its conclusion. India, 1990: Shridula, now fifty-nine, old and stooped, makes her painful way to pay homage to the elephant god Ganesh, lord of success and destroyer of obstacles. "Why are we Hindus instead of Christians?" asks her seventeen-year-old granddaughter, Divena. "Because we are Indian," Shridula answers.

So begins Divena's spiritual journey, as she struggles against an entire culture to proclaim a faith close to her heart, rocking the world of two families in the process. The final novel in a three-book saga that moves through India's history toward a future of hope, where name-only Christianity meets Hinduism and an entirely new understanding of the call to follow Christ.

Kay Marshall Strom is an established Christian fiction author whose work includes the Grace in Africa series. The Love of Divena concludes the trilogy begun in The Faith of Ashish and The Hope of Shridula.