About Esther’s Song by B. G. Brainard:

If Hadassah had known how her life would change the next day, she would not have believed it. Then her adoptive father Mordecai told her Persian royal couriers were on their way to take her to the citadel of Susa, along with other virgins King Xerxes might find desirable to be the next queen. Mordecai gave her a pair of Hebrew inscribed bracelets that belonged to her deceased mother, while he forbade her to reveal her Jewish background or nationality.

Couriers arrived and transported her to the palace. She was deemed acceptable after a Greek physician confirmed she was an intact virgin. She was scrubbed clean and escorted to her room in the second house of the royal harem. The next morning Great Queen Atossa requested Hadassah’s presence. Xerxes’ mother regaled Hadassah with stories of how her father, King Cyrus, twice escaped death at the hands of his grandfather. Although wary of the queen mother, Hadassah could not help feeling enthralled by the older woman’s attention.

The overseer of the harem welcomed the virgins and told them what to expect. Later while trying to retrieve the incriminating bracelets she had hidden during her physical inspection, Hadassah unexpectedly encountered King Xerxes. He told her not to be afraid and asked her name before his procession moved on. Later at the birth celebration for the deposed queen’s son Artaxerxes, Amestris scrutinized Hadassah with dark eyes cold as winter ice.

Hadassah received permission from the king to continue her language studies, due to ineptness at the dance and music classes. She made friends with some of the virgins, but aroused disdain in others when given a new name, magnificent apartment, and seven maids by Great Queen Atossa. Esther, as she was now called, finished her beauty treatments while Xerxes was off fighting the Greeks. While gone he had an affair with his son Darius’s wife. When he arrived back in Susa, deposed Amestris avenged herself on his mistress’ mother by having the woman’s breasts, nose, ears, and lips chopped off.

Great Queen Atossa warned the harem was a dangerous place, and then Esther was summoned to go in to see the king and chosen to be Amestris’ successor. She was crowned queen after a failed attempt on her life, which Esther felt had been instigated by Atossa. After being reunited with her father, Mordecai informed her of a plot to kill the king. She told her husband and the plan was thwarted. Xerxes appointed Haman as his new prime minister. When Mordecai refused to bow down to him, Haman devised a scheme to annihilate all the Jews.

Mordecai persuaded Esther to beg for the lives of her people. Knowing the penalty for going unannounced to the king was death, hope rose when he welcomed her into his presence. She invited him and Haman to dinner. Afterwards the king could not sleep and had the royal records read to him. He learned Mordecai was not rewarded for revealing the plot against him. To honor him, the humiliated Haman had to lead Mordecai around the city.

At the second banquet, Esther disclosed Haman’s plan to kill her people. Haman was hung on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. King Xerxes promoted Mordecai to prime minister. He also commissioned Mordecai and Esther to write a new edict in his name allowing the Jews to defend themselves and their property. Afterwards they decided there should be an annual celebration to commemorate this great victory and called it Purim.

Esther continued her chancellory work and the king expanded his father’s building program at Persepolis until he was assassinated seven years later. She feared for her life, but now Great Queen Amestris astoundingly allowed Esther to retire to her estate at Kukkannakan. While en route Esther reflected on other journeys and people she had traveled with. Their song and hers had become one. She thanked the God of heaven for all his blessings for such a time as this.

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Dr. B. G. Brainard’s passion as an historical fiction author is to bring the Hebrew Scriptures to life one book at a time through meticulous ancient Near East research and numerous excursions to the Middle East. She lives in Oregon with her husband, five hundred orchids, and a little red barn. To learn more about the author and upcoming historical novels thatsympathetically imagine the life of each character within the known parameters of the biblical story and historical record.

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An active trader, Steve’s high interests include the world’s stock market (he trades only US market though), investment strategies, personal finance, money management, entrepreneurship, vagabond lifestyle, gin & tonic, Texas Hold’em Poker, Manchester United, and NBA games.

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About Bodychecking (Seattle Sockeyes Hockey):

As the wild child of the family, Bellani Maxwell isn’t interested in settling down. Between a fledgling party crashing business, teaching self-defense at a martial arts studio, and hitting the bar every night, she has her hands full. She doesn’t need the added responsibility or commitment of a relationship.

Hockey star Cedric Pederson has all the puck bunnies he could ever want, but a chance encounter eighteen months ago leaves him with eyes only for the gorgeous, free-spirited Bellani. Too bad she isn’t interested in what Cedric has to offer beyond frequent hookups, and he’s grown tired of their on-again, off-again non-relationship. He wants to be all-in or all-out.

When a brutal attack leaves Bellani in need of comfort, protection, and healing, the only person she wants is Cedric. But once she’s living in his condo, Bellani is confronted with a future she’s been avoiding—one with Cedric and one without.

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USA Today Bestselling Author Jami Davenport writes sexy contemporary and sports romances, including her two new indie endeavors: the Game On in Seattle Series and the Madrona Island Series. Jami’s new releases consistently rank in the top fifty on the sports romance and sports genre lists on Amazon, and she has hit the Amazon top hundred authors list in both contemporary romance and genre fiction multiple times. Jami ranked Number Seven on Kobo’s Top Ten Most Completed Authors, an honor bestowed on the year’s “most engaging” authors based on an average page completion rate by their readers.

About Easter Sunday by Thomas Hollyday:

Hank Green’s young son, Bobby, is trapped in a cave beneath a water-drenched swamp of the Chesapeake Bay, one known for Native American mystery as well as a World War Two secret. Even worse, a powerful Easter Sunday storm is barreling down. As Hank rushes to join the team of experienced local firemen and friends who will try to rescue his son, he feels once again his own numbing personal terror. He is overcome by a lifelong claustrophobic fear of entering closed spaces like caves, a phobia he inherited from his immigrant father, a displaced person from the 1945 European war, and his own Vietnam experience. He knows if the others lose hope and fail, he will go on alone and risk his life to save his child, but he must find a way to conquer his weakness. Easter Sunday, Book Seven of the River Sunday Romance Mysteries, is the latest of this acclaimed Chesapeake series by Thomas Hollyday. The author’s unique voice once again gives us an exciting read about the people, their beliefs and legends, and the grasping mud and black water wetlands of this mysterious American region.

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Thomas Hollyday (1942-present) was born in Easton, Maryland. His father was an acclaimed photographer and his mother a brilliant teacher.His father’s family were active in the history of Maryland since its settlement while his mother’s family were prominent in Democratic Party politics. His grandmother’s family descended from a well known German industrial family of Baltimore. He grew up in the southern atmosphere of the Eastern Shore with its maritime and military heritage. He studied writing with Elliott Coleman at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and with C.Michael Curtis of the Atlantic Monthly. He served with distinction in Vietnam and became a successful international businessman.He also drew illustrations for national magazines and published maritime and Civil War history. He currently edits popular video blogs on you tube for animal water rights and for book reviews. He draws the popular humorous Animal Viewpoint Cartoons for newspapers. He continues to please his fans with new novels in his River Sunday Romance Mysteries collection. In his fiction he describes his recurring theme that human settlers since prehistoric times in the Chesapeake region have left a mist of legend and history that permeates its modern stories with a certain compelling truth. At the same time he incorporates the stories of machines with those of their human owners. Each novel, located in the small town of River Sunday, Maryland, also records the continuing beautiful nature of the area. His writing portrays today’s problems, conflicts, and memorable local characters with their loves and their combat with evil.