The Gilded Chamber
Author: Rebecca Kohn
One girl, one nation, one chance . . .,,Esther’s story is one of the most dramatic in the Bible: a renowned beauty, she used her feminine wiles to capture the heart of a king and so win the deliverance of her people from the threat of death. The Gilded Chamber creatively re-works the famous story to show us how this young girl came to be in the harem of King Xerxes and how h….Read More
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