What happens when your life is shaped more by other people's decisions than your own? When you're loved, but not chosen… placed, but not seen… given, taken, and given again?

In this deeply moving Faith Through Fiction interview, Michal—daughter of King Saul, first wife of David, a woman whose story has long been told in fragments—finally speaks in her own voice. “I was given and taken and given again,” she says. “And somewhere in between, I stopped knowing if I was ever truly chosen.”

From growing up in a palace where safety depended on reading the room before it shifted, to loving a man who represented freedom but not understanding, to being used as a political tool in her father’s pursuit of control—Michal’s early life was defined by survival, performance, and invisibility. “You learn quickly where to stand, what to say, when to b ...