Noah was a patriarch and a great man of God. His faithfulness and obedience save the human race from the Great Flood. So only a few years after that historical voyage, how did Noah end up lying outside his tent drunk, naked, and ashamed? Nimrod was the first on earth to be a mighty man. His great-grandfather was Noah, his uncle, the rebellious Canaan. When Nimrod decides that his kingdom should include The Tower, what will Noah, the elderly patriarch do? In their first award winning novel The Rain, authors Skates and Tankersley took readers on a captivating, year-long voyage about the ark. In...

We huddled together around the table, terrified of what was to come. Though we had been warned, the reality of what was happening was almost more than we could bear. We violently pressed our hands to our ears to block the sounds from those outside, but we could not keep from hearing their screams. The sound of fingernails clawing desperately at the sides of the ark went through us like a knife blade. Nothing could be worse than this, I thought. But it did get worse. I began to hear familiar voices. The cries of strangers were harrowing enough, but now I could hear the shouts of my mother's...