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THE PROVIDENCE
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One-line hook
A good, generous man encounters a command his goodness cannot solve.
Before he is remembered as the rich ruler who kneels before Jesus, he is a hungry boy in Jericho learning how honest measures and shared responsibility can turn scarcity into security.
- Title
- THE PROVIDENCE
- Author
- Quinlan Motley
- Publisher
- Independently published / Good Novels
- Publication
- August 2026
- Language
- English
- Length
- 159 pages
- Formats
- Kindle, paperback, hardcover
- Genre
- Biblical fiction; Christian historical fiction; literary Christian fiction
Press release · For immediate release
New Biblical Novel Imagines the Life Behind the Rich Ruler’s Gospel Encounter
August 29, 2026
Good Novels announces THE PROVIDENCE, a compact literary biblical novel by Quinlan Motley that imagines the life surrounding one of the Gospels’ briefest and most morally difficult encounters.
Set in first-century Jericho and Judea, the novel follows a hungry boy who becomes an honorable merchant, employer, husband, and trusted community ruler. His wealth is not treated as a simple villain: it pays workers, stores food, absorbs risk, and protects households. That is what makes the call he eventually hears so difficult.
THE PROVIDENCE is available in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover editions through Amazon. The Kindle edition is enrolled in KDP Select and is available through Kindle Unlimited where offered.
Suggested interview questions
- Why make the rich ruler a good employer and responsible provider?
- Why is Mark’s detail that Jesus loved him central to the novel?
- How did you decide what to imagine without presenting fiction as Scripture?
- What do bread, measures, keys, and ropes allow the novel to say?
- Why refuse an easy answer after the familiar Gospel moment?
No author answers are supplied here; responses should come directly from Quinlan Motley.
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