I can’t not reblog a review of Esther with the line “Ms. Kanner’s prose is absolutely beautiful.”
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Howard Books
Publication Date: November 3, 2015
Formats Available: Kindle, Hardcover
Summary:
A glittering Persian king has a vast empire that reaches farther than where the sun meets the horizon. He is bathed in riches and commands a frightening military force. He possesses power beyond any other mortal man and rules his kingdom as a god. Anything he desires, he has. Any woman he wants, he possesses. Thousands of them. Young virgins ripped from all across his many lands.
A Jewish girl is ripped from her hut by the king’s brutish warriors and forced to march across blistering, scorched earth to the capitol city. Trapped for months in the splendid cage of the King’s palace, she must avoid the ire of the king’s concubines and eunuchs all while preparing for her one night with the king. Soon the fated night arrives, and she…
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