TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hunt,Angela Elwell
TI  - King's shadow: a novel of King Herod's court 
T2  - The silent years
SN  - 9781432869977
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
KW  - Herod
KW  - Courts and courtiers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Large type books
N2  - "Two women occupy a place in Herod's court. The first, Salome, is the king's only sister, a resentful woman who has been told she is from an inferior race, a people God will never accept or approve. The second woman, Zara, is a lowly handmaid who serves Salome, but where Salome spies conspiracies and treachery, Zara sees hurting people in need of understanding and compassion. Powerful and powerless, Idumean and Jew, selfish and selfless--both women struggle to reach their goals and survive in Herod the Great's tumultuous court, where no one is trustworthy and no one is safe"--
ER  -