Touch of the Golden Scepter Author:Lois T. Henderson King Ahasuerus tilted Esther's chin up with his fingers. For many seconds he gazed at her, turning her face first one way and then the other. — He touched her hair and cheek. "You are the loveliest girl I've ever seen," he said softly. "If I am as pleased at the end of the evening as I am now, it may be that my search for a queen is over." — A tho... more »usand questions swirled in and out of Esther's mind. Was it possible that she would be the next queen of Persia?
Lois T. Henderson is a freelance writer who has published three novels for adults about Bible women. She has written another novel for young readers: THE BLESSING DEER, about a girl who runs from racial prejudice in her big-city home only to find it again on a remote northern island.
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