What does it mean to be after God's heart... while missing the heart of the person standing right in front of you?

In this deeply personal and unexpectedly vulnerable Faith Through Fiction interview, King David—shepherd, warrior, giant-slayer, psalmist—sits down to discuss the relationship he's rarely asked about: his first wife, Michal.

"I fought lions. I faced giants. But loving well? That was the battle I didn't always win."

From the moment Michal saved his life by deceiving her father Saul, to the years of separation when she was given to another man, to the day David reclaimed her not primarily for love but for legacy—this is the story of two people who saw each other clearly once, then grew separately, and never truly came back together.

David confesses with startling honesty: "When a man is running for his life ...