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The Feast They Could Not Erase
Paperback
Series: The Hidden Name, Book 5
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 9 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Haman is dead. His law is not.
The man who condemned the Jews of Persia has fallen, executed on the very structure prepared for Mordecai.
Esther has exposed him.
The king has given her Haman's estate.
Mordecai now carries the royal signet.
And none of it has stopped the decree.
Across the Persian Empire, sealed orders still declare that on the thirteenth day of Adar, every Jew may be attacked and destroyed.
The law cannot simply be erased.
So another message must outrun the first.
While Mordecai works inside the machinery of empire to give his people the right to defend themselves, royal couriers race along the same roads that once carried their death sentence.
But permission to fight is not the same as safety.
In Susa, Yael prepares for the day she has dreaded for months. Neighbours who once shared streets must decide where they stand. Doors are reinforced. Blades are sharpened. Families wait to discover whether the people around them will become defenders, bystanders-or killers.
Inside the palace, Parysatis has made her own choice.
Once she envied Esther for winning the crown she wanted. Now she understands what that crown has cost. When violence reaches the women the palace has gathered and confined, rivalry gives way to something neither woman could have imagined when they first entered the House of Women.
Then the appointed day arrives.
The streets of Susa run with fear and blood.
The people marked for destruction fight to survive.
And Esther is not finished.
When the killing ends, survival brings no simple triumph. There are bodies to count, names to record, families to mourn and memories that must not be surrendered to the empire that nearly erased them.
So the Jews of Persia do something extraordinary.
They feast.
They give gifts.
They remember the poor.
They write down what happened.
And the date chosen for their destruction becomes a celebration their enemies cannot take from them.
A decree can be sealed. A people cannot be erased.
The Feast They Could Not Erase is the fifth and final book of The Hidden Name, a sweeping adult biblical historical-fiction saga that retells the story of Esther through those who stood close enough to witness history.
Rich with Persian court intrigue, courage, friendship, violence, sacrifice and the quiet mystery of providence, this concluding volume follows the biblical story through its darkest day and into the birth of Purim.
The lot chose a day for them to die.
They turned it into a day the world would remember.
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