King David

Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David.

The record tells her love in a line, and her life in a few more. She let him down through a window to save him, and her father gave her to another man. When David sent for her, that husband went with her, weeping behind her all the way to Bahurim. On the day the ark came into the city, she watched the king dance, and despised him in her heart.
This is the life of King David, told from inside four people. David himself, from the sheepfold to the throne. Michal, who loved him. Phaltiel, her second husband, who carried a brazier up the stairs each winter at Gallim and asked whether the room was warm enough. And Bathsheba, who first saw David as a child at the cave of Adullam, long before he saw her from his roof.
The story runs from the oil on the threshing floor to the sword Nathan said would never depart from his house. God called him a man after His own heart. Not a clean one: a known one, loved, broken, judged, and loved still.

Book 3 of The Called and the Kept: the youngest son, left with the sheep the day the prophet came. The LORD looked past his brothers, and on his heart.