Esther (A Dangerous Beauty Novel Book #1)

Royal Beauty

Angela Hunt

• Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
• eBook ISBN:
  9781441269294
• Year: 2014

When an ambitious tyrant threatens genocide against the Jews, an inexperienced young queen must take a stand for her people.


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 Esther 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Chapter One: Hadassah
• Chapter Two: Harbonah
• Chapter Three: Hadassah
• Chapter Four: Harbonah
• Chapter Five: Harbonah
• Chapter Six: Hadassah
• Chapter Seven: Harbonah
• Chapter Eight: Hadassah
• Chapter Nine: Harbonah
• Chapter Ten: Hadassah
• Chapter Eleven: Harbonah
• Chapter Twelve: Hadassah
• Chapter Thirteen: Harbonah
• Chapter Fourteen: Hadassah
• Chapter Fifteen: Harbonah
• Chapter Sixteen: Hadassah
• Chapter Seventeen: Harbonah
• Chapter Eighteen: Hadassah
• Chapter Nineteen: Harbonah
• Chapter Twenty: Hadassah
• Chapter Twenty-One: Harbonah
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Hadassah
• Chapter Twenty-Three: Hadassah
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Harbonah
• Chapter Twenty-Five: Hadassah
• Chapter Twenty-Six: Harbonah
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: Hadassah
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: Hadassah
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: Harbonah
• Chapter Thirty: Hadassah
• Chapter Thirty-One: Hadassah
• Chapter Thirty-Two: Hadassah
• Chapter Thirty-Three: Harbonah
• Chapter Thirty-Four: Hadassah
• Chapter Thirty-Five: Harbonah
• Chapter Thirty-Six: Hadassah
• Chapter Thirty-Seven: Harbonah
• Chapter Thirty-Eight: Hadassah
• Chapter Thirty-Nine: Harbonah
• Chapter Forty: Hadassah
• Chapter Forty-One: Harbonah
• Chapter Forty-Two: Hadassah
• Chapter Forty-Three: Harbonah
• Chapter Forty-Four: Hadassah
• Chapter Forty-Five: Harbonah
• Chapter Forty-Six: Hadassah
• Chapter Forty-Seven: Harbonah
• Chapter Forty-Eight: Hadassah
• Chapter Forty-Nine: Harbonah
• Epilogue: Harbonah
• Discussion Questions
• Author's Note
• References
• About the Author
• Back Ads
• Back Cover