Thirteen-year-old Bani, though born in Jerusalem, has lived from infancy
with his uncle in beautiful Susa, the city of the Persian King
Artaxerxes. Now, his Uncle Nehemiah wants to leave his position of high
honor as Cupbearer to the King to return to Jerusalem, a city in ruins
and beset by every kind of trouble! Nehemiah's request of the king,
permission to return to help his own people, could so easily—in an
empire riddled with political intrigue—be misconstrued as treasonous
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