had come and gone and the sea was notoriously dangerous by November. Following A Voice in the Wind and An Echo in the Darkness, As Sure as the Dawn continues the chronicles of Hadassah, a Christian slave woman living during the. Weeks of travel south and west into the Mediterranean would be saved by taking the ship overland. Sweat glistened on their brown bodies as they labored to pull the ship up a ramp. Nero had begun work on a canal through the faulted limestone of the isthmus, but the work had stopped upon his death, making the arduous overland trek still necessary.The slaves strained at the ropes of a ship nearby. It would take days to haul the corbita the few miles to the Savonic Gulf where it would be launched in order to continue the voyage to Italy. It would be replaced on the other side of the hill with grain destined for Rome.Once stripped, the ship would be dragged from the water. Following A Voice in the Wind and An Echo in the Darkness, As Sure as the Dawn is Book 3 in the historical Christian fiction ''Mark of the Lion'' trilogy by Francine Rivers - the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and A Voice in the Wind. Sburarii unloaded the sand ballast for the Corinth arena. “Theophilus and the soldiers removed the trunk being sent to the emperor while the slaves, who had manned the oars from Ephesus to Corinth, unloaded rugs, aromatic spices, and amphorae of wine, and loaded them into wagons for the journey over the isthmus.
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