Out From Egypt Books in Order

The Out From Egypt trilogy asks what the Exodus might have felt like for people who stood on the edges of the biblical story. Instead of following Moses directly, Connilyn Cossette centers each book on a different young woman drawn from Egyptian, Hebrew, and Canaanite cultures, letting readers experience the plagues, wilderness years, and entrance into Canaan through fresh eyes.

Counted with the Stars introduces Kiya, an Egyptian merchant’s daughter whose father sells her into slavery to pay his debts. Stripped of status and security, she serves a hard mistress in a household where Hebrew slaves are common and often despised. Through her friendship with Shira, a compassionate Hebrew woman, Kiya is pulled into the drama of the plagues and the terrifying night of Passover. When she flees Egypt with the Hebrews, she has to decide whether the God who toppled her nation’s idols is someone she can trust with her family and heart.

In Shadow of the Storm, Shira steps into the center of the stage. Now living at the foot of Mount Sinai, she discovers a surprising calling as a midwife during the chaos that follows Israel’s rebellion with the golden calf. Her choice to pursue that calling puts her at odds with her family’s expectations and draws her into complex relationships that expose old wounds. As tension rises between the Hebrew tribes and outsiders traveling with them, Shira has to confront both the trauma in her past and the lies she still believes about her worth.

Wings of the Wind completes the series with Alanah, a Canaanite woman raised among warriors who has lost nearly everything to Israel’s advancing armies. Determined to die in battle taking as many enemies with her as possible, she rides onto the field disguised as a man and is instead rescued by Tobiah, a Hebrew soldier who follows the Torah’s command to marry captive women rather than abandon them. Forced into an unwanted marriage and a foreign camp, Alanah struggles with grief, rage, and growing affection as the Hebrews stand on the brink of crossing the Jordan.

Across all three novels, Out From Egypt explores big themes of slavery and freedom, fear and faith, and what it means to leave behind false gods for the living God of Israel. The stories are rich with desert landscapes, camp life, festivals, and quiet domestic moments, and they weave in romance without losing sight of the spiritual journey at the core. Readers who start here will see how this early generation’s choices echo through the later Cities of Refuge and Covenant House books.