Esther

<b>When an ambitious tyrant threatens genocide against the Jews an inexperienced young queen must take a stand for her people. <BR></b><BR><BR>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 <i>Esther</i> 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.