Bitter for Sweet

This is the story of Herod the Great's mother and how she brought the Arabic world of Nabataea and the Latin world of Rome to the Land of Israel.

The Middle East, 76 BCE. Internal power struggles consume Jerusalem's attention while surrounding nations manipulate events for their own purposes. Two young women from opposite worlds-Pninah, a poor Jewish girl subject to seizures, and Cypros, a Nabataean princess-are thrust by violent events into a collision course with each other and history.

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