Bethany House
January 2015
On Sale: January 6, 2015
Featuring: Xerxes; Hadassah
368 pages ISBN: 0764216953 EAN: 9780764216954 Kindle: B00MBTYKH2 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
When an ambitious tyrant threatens genocide against the
Jews, an inexperienced young queen must take a stand for her
people.
When Xerxes, king of Persia, issues a call for beautiful
young women, Hadassah, a Jewish orphan living in Susa, is
forcibly taken to the palace of the pagan ruler. After
months of preparation, the girl known to the Persians as
Esther wins the king's heart and a queen's crown.
But because her situation is uncertain, she keeps her ethnic
identity a secret until she learns that an evil and
ambitious man has won the king's permission to exterminate
all Jews--young and old, powerful and helpless. Purposely
violating an ancient Persian law, she risks her life in
order to save her people...and bind her husband's heart.