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Thomas Nelson
March 2014
On Sale: March 18, 2014
Featuring: Lydia
400 pages ISBN: 1401686842 EAN: 9781401686840 Kindle: B00GUTB1Q2 Paperback / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Historical
From the servant halls of Cleopatraβs Egyptian palace to the courts of Herod the Great, Lydia will serve two queens to see prophecy fulfilled. Alexandria, Egypt 39 BC Orphaned at birth, Lydia was raised as a servant in Cleopatra's palace, working hard to please while keeping everyone at arm's length. She's been rejected and left with a broken heart too many times in her short life. But then her dying mentor entrusts her with secret writings of the prophet Daniel and charges her to deliver this vital information to those watching for the promised King of Israel. Lydia must leave the nearest thing sheβs had to family and flee to Jerusalem. Once in the Holy City, she attaches herself to the newly appointed king, Herod the Great, as handmaid to Queen Mariamme. Trapped among the scheming women of Herodβs political familyβhis sister, his wife, and their mothersβand forced to serve in the palace to protect her treasure, Lydia must deliver the scrolls before dark forces warring against the truth destroy all hope of the coming Messiah.
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