Biblical Fiction Novelist Paula K. Parker Unveils
“If I Perish: A Queen’s Sacrifice”
Amazon.com bestselling author and playwright Paula K. Parker and WordCrafts Press are thrilled to announce her latest novel, If I Perish: A Queen’s Sacrifice, which released to retail today, October 30, 2024, in hardback, trade paperback, and all major ebook formats. Set amidst the rise of the Persian Empire during the reign of Xerxes the Great, the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid dynasty, Paula’s tale follows the journey of a young Jewish girl named Hadassah who lost her community, her family, and even her name, before finally becoming the queen of the most powerful empire in the ancient world.
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.
Over the course of a year, she has 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.
