The Called and the Kept
The Buried and the Kept
Novels of the Bible and the Book of Mormon — told through the eyes of the people who stood beside the prophets: the wives, the guards, the schoolmistresses, the sons. The ones scripture gave a single line.
Where Scripture Ends, the Story Begins
These novels began when a boy read the Yorgason brothers' story of Teancum — a warrior the scriptures barely pause to bury — and discovered that the people behind a single verse had whole lives waiting to be told. The fear before the miracle. The wife beside the prophet. The soldier whose name the record keeps but never explains. Decades of drafts grew into two sagas. M. Hughes writes for those people — the unnamed, the forgotten, the fully human — because no one should have to live, or die, unseen.
— Written in gratitude to the Yorgason Brothers, whose Teancum started everything
Two worlds. One unbroken thread.
Read them in either order — every book stands alone, and every book belongs.
The Called and the Kept
From a shepherd boy who became a king to the women who kept Israel alive in famine and exile. Begin with King David — the story of the man after God's own heart, told by the people who paid for his greatness.
The Buried and the Kept
Two thousand sons who would not break. A schoolmistress in bondage who would not stop teaching. A commander who buried his sword. Begin with Antipus — the story of the general history forgot, who stood so the stripling warriors could live.
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