'Fast moving and honest - brings the Biblical narrative to life with warmth and insight. Undiluted delight.' (Christian Herald)

Persia has a ruthless new overlord, and subject nations seethe beneath his rule. In the maelstrom of racial tensions, the man who has won the emperor's favour plots the extermination of an enemy people. But the emperor's principal wife hides a wretched secret: she is a member of that doomed nation.

Queen Esther - whose Hebrew name was Hadassah - must choose between her exalted position and the ties of race and blood.

Esther was very probably a descendant of King Saul, and the enemy who plotted against her people was almost certainly descended from the Amalekite king whom Saul had once imprudently spared. In this way the stories of Saul, Absalom and Esther are closely connected.

'Hadassah' is available for Kindle online from Amazon for £3.01.

'Hadassah' is also available as a hardback and as a paperback online from Amazon at various prices from £3.00 approx. for a used hardback and £1 approx. for the paperback.

You may also find it in Christian bookshops or in good secular bookshops. Foreign editions are sometimes available in the countries where they are published.

Alternatively you can order the book directly from me at £6 per volume which includes postage and packing to UK addresses. For contact details please go to the contact section of the biography page.

I have also published a non-fiction title about the book of Esther, in the 'Character and Charisma' series by Kingsway. This too can be found on Amazon here: Esther: For Such a Time as This.