Dr. Lauree Brown Announces ‘Beyond the Well,’ a Historical Novel Reimagining the Life of the Samaritan Woman

Beyond the Well is a powerful work of historical fiction of a Samaritan woman’s life, known in Christian theology for her encounter with Jesus at Jacob’s well. The story is centered where Scripture is silent: her life before the well.

The novel follows Photine, a courageous and fiercely independent woman navigating love, loss, and survival in a rigidly patriarchal society. Through multiple marriages, social judgment, and societal burdens, Photine struggles to define herself. Her journey unfolds among the women of the well where gossip, resilience, and quiet rebellion intertwine and against the backdrop of Samaritan–Jewish tension and Roman occupation.

While the story culminates in Photine’s encounter with Jesus, Beyond the Well offers a human portrait of a woman shaped by hardship, driven by agency, and ultimately, forgiveness and inner freedom.

Rich in historical detail and emotional depth, Beyond the Well explores themes of empowerment, feminism, shame and redemption, courage, and self-discovery. It is a story of survival and grace one that invites readers to see a familiar biblical figure not as a symbol, but as a woman reclaiming her voice, and her identity.

Beyond the Well will resonate with readers of historical fiction, faith-inspired literature, and stories that illuminate the untold lives of women history tried to define in silence.

About the Author
Dr. Lauree Brown is a writer and scholar with a PhD in metaphysical theology whose work centers women’s voices long overlooked by history. Drawing on her academic background in psychology and anthropology, as well as her own lived experience of overcoming trauma, Brown writes women as fully realized individuals intelligent, resilient, and shaped by the worlds they inhabit.

In Beyond the Well, she reimagines the Samaritan woman not as a symbol, but as a complex human being navigating power, loss, survival, and agency in a patriarchal society. Brown’s storytelling is grounded in historical research and emotional realism, informed by both scholarship and personal insight into how struggle can become strength.

Her work is devoted to restoring depth, dignity, and voice to women whose inner lives were never recorded but whose courage still echoes.

Dr. Lauree Brown
Parker Publishers
+1 689-223-5883
laureebrown1@gmail.com