If I Perish

<p class=ql-align-center><strong>The story of Esther</strong>.</p><p class=ql-align-center>She was an orphan.</p><p class=ql-align-center>She was an outcast.</p><p class=ql-align-center>She was the queen of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen</p><p class=ql-align-center>And she was born...</p><p class=ql-align-center>For such a time as this.</p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A bold new retelling of the Story of Esther by Pulitzer Prize nominee Paula K. Parker.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hadassah was born into a loving wealthy Jewish family in the Persian Empire's capital city of Susa. But before she even comes of age her world is swept away by events over which she has no control. Her parents murdered she is left with only one living relative her much older cousin Mordecai who shelters her as his own daughter. Just when life regains a semblance of normality on the eve of her betrothal she is taken against her will into the King's harem where she assumes a new name and is admonished to never speak of her family or heritage.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Over the course of a year she had become an orphan and an outcast. Yet even here she is destined to serve the purposes of God. As Mordecai prophesied she was born for such a time as this.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p>