Chosen People Books in Order

The Chosen People novels follow Hana Abboud, a Christian Arab Israeli lawyer who splits her life between Atlanta and the Middle East. Whitlow uses her work to open a window into cross-cultural friendships, clashing loyalties, and the legal aftermath of terrorism.

In Chosen People, a terrorist attack near the Western Wall in Jerusalem leaves a young mother dead and her small daughter orphaned. Hana is asked to help bring a civil case in the United States on behalf of the family, using anti-terrorism laws to pursue the people believed to be behind the bombing.

She teams up with Jakob Brodsky, a young Jewish attorney, and Daud Hasan, an Arab investigator based in Israel. Together they travel from corporate towers in Atlanta to narrow streets and holy sites in Jerusalem, following money trails, interviewing reluctant witnesses, and trying to stay ahead of very real threats.

The investigation is as much about identity as it is about evidence. Hana has to navigate her place as an Arab Christian in Jewish and Muslim spaces, Jakob carries the weight of his family’s history, and Daud walks a careful line between the communities he must move through to do his work.

In Promised Land, the story widens. Hana and Daud, now building a life in the United States because of danger back home, face pressure that pulls them toward Israel again. She is organizing a high-profile legal summit in Atlanta and helping Jakob with a complex case involving artifacts stolen from a Jewish family during the Second World War.

At the same time, Daud agrees to assist with an intelligence operation that begins in Egypt and edges closer to Jerusalem. His calling as an investigator and protector pushes him toward the very threats that once drove him away, and the choices he makes put him, Hana, and their unborn child in the crosshairs.

Across both books, readers can expect detailed legal maneuvering, tense travel through Israel and its neighboring regions, and a steady thread of spiritual reflection. The series keeps the focus on human relationships even as it brushes against geopolitics, asking what justice, heritage, and calling look like for people who live in contested lands.