02642cam a2200433 i 4500 1002097489 TxAuBib 20231006120000.0 231025s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023944395 9781638089575 hardback : alk. paper $38.95 1638089574 hardback : alk. paper $38.95 (OCoLC)1405895519 TxAuBib rda Afshar, Tessa, author. The peasant king : a novel / Tessa Afshar. Large print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023. ©2023. 462 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Regular print version previously published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Includes discussion questions and author's note with background information. "Jemmah has always thought of herself as perfectly ordinary . . . until she faces extraordinary circumstances. When her mother, the Persian king's famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary's lands proves easier than escaping them. Fleeing through dangerous mountain passes, their survival depends on the skills of a stranger they free from prison: a mysterious prince named Asher. Asher is not who the world believes he is. Despite his royal blood, he has had to climb his way out of poverty to forge success from nothing. A manufacturer of some of the best weaponry in the East, Asher has only one goal: to destroy his father. But following his escape from prison, Asher is irresistibly drawn to Jemmah, unaware that she guards her own secret. Jemmah must convince Asher to give up everything he has worked for, all for the sake of a higher purpose he's not sure he believes in. The fate of the Persian empire -- and possibly the Judean people -- hang in the balance and in the persuasive power of one ordinary woman."-- Provided by publisher. 20231006. Kidnapping victims Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Princes Fiction. Escaped prisoners Fiction. Kings and rulers Fiction. Large type books. Iran History to 640 Fiction. Christian fiction. lcgft Bible fiction. Large print books. TXCLY