Wrenched from a simple life for her beauty, Esther finds herself at the mercy of King Xerxes. Leaving behind her only relative, her cousin Mordecai, and her first true love, Cyrus, she is thrown headlong into the unrestrained extravagance of palace living. Quick of mind and strong in spirit, she ...
So many voices made it hard for him to think, and he rubbed his forehead for relief from a growing headache. Omri had retired an hour ago, worn out by the bickering that could not be resolved with a sword. Ahab was thankful. He was embarrassed by the truth, which was that it had not rained for ne...
The next morning Mass was well attended, more for the hope of fresh gossip than for forgiveness of sins, Stefan knew. He was hungry. He had searched the cellar below the church, but he and Erick had eaten the last of the vegetables stored from the last harvest. His stomach...
Anne had heard these chants from the monasteries and found them comforting, but this one thin voice stripped the piece of its charm. Anne was cold. Liber scriptus proferetur,In quo totum continetur,Unde mundus judicetur.Recordare, Jesu pie,Quod sum causa tuae viae:Ne me pe...