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Product: King of Flames (Fae of Fire and Ash Book 1)
Description: Xerxes the King of Flames is out to regain the power he lost to the King of Frost, so he can wreak havoc in the realms once more. He’s focused, vicious and, worst of all, he’s after me.
You see, I, Cerys Dark, am the only mage who can help him regain his full power. I’ve learned to hate him long before I met him, but I'll be damned, when he comes for me it’s not a hideous demon that I face. It’s a king riddled with shadow, magic and the promise of guilty pleasures. In exchange for my help he promises me freedom from the fated mates' bond that we share - a curse in its own right. His proximity entices me in all the wrong and yet oh-so-right ways, but staying under his control would eventually consume me. So here I am, faced with an impossible choice. Do I save myself, or do I save the realms?
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Product: The Ice King's Secret (Fae of Darkness Series Book 3)
Description: He’s the King of Ice. I’m the Princess of the Ocean. We are bonded mates, but we can never be together. If we do, the world goes down in flames.

I’m gonna make this simple—the Fire King is trying to take over the world, and only the Ice King can stop him. But he needs allies. For that, he was forced to pledge himself to another woman, or she would take her armies to the Fire King, and all Hell would break loose.
But resisting this warrior with ice blue eyes, chiseled jaw and perfect body is so hard that it hurts. I can feel he fights the same craving for me, and he’s having more trouble hiding it by the day. Can we control our burning desire long enough to save the world?
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Product: King of Frost (Fae of Darkness Series Book 2)
Description: When Lysander the King of Frost and I united our powers against Xerxes the Fire King, something unexpected happened—we became bonded mates. A catastrophe, considering that Lysander is promised to another High Fae in exchange for military support in the upcoming war. The stakes—if Lysander loses his allies and therefore the war, Xerxes will turn the human realm into hell on Earth, before he takes over all the other realms.This means that our bond is forbidden, cursed, a tragedy. I’m trying to kill it, but seeing Lysander every day, royal and deadly, moving around like a sleek feral, it’s driving me crazy with forbidden desire. I should leave his Court, take distance, but I can’t, because Xerxes is after me.So when an alternative presents itself, I grab on to it with both hands. It’s dark, and bloody, but it might just save the world. This means that I have to tap into the dark powers of a more obscure side of my bloodline. Problem is, these powers might kill me.This is Book 2 of the Fae of Darkness series.
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Product: Lord of Winter (Fae of Darkness Series Book 1)
Description: Fae law is clear—Never use magic in the mortal realm. Except that's what I do for a living, and for paying off my student debt. I just couldn't leave it on Aunt Miriam's tired, battered shoulders, not to mention that love spells pay well. And it all worked out just fine—until it didn't, and the Lord of Winter tracked me down.
Lysander Nightfrost is a ruthless fae king enforcing millennia old law. I should run for the hills when he appears, but my feet keep rooted in the ground. I can't stop staring at his sharp warrior features, his hair like liquid gold, his ice-blue eyes sending chills all through me. He's here to punish me. But when he learns who I really am, the tides turn.
I am what the fire king Xerxes has been searching for since the day my father died, which makes me a powerful weapon in Lysander's hands. One of the ways he can use me is trade me over in exchange for something he wants from Xerxes. I'm trapped, stripped of choices, but not of my will. If I go down, I'll take Lysander's ice-cold heart with me. It's a tough game, but I will either melt it, or drown it at the bottom of the ocean.
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Product: King Xerxes I: The Life and Legacy of the Achaemenid Persian Empire’s Most Notorious Ruler
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One of the Persian Empire’s most famous figures is King Xerxes I, if only because he led the Second Persian War against the Greeks. Thanks to legendary clashes at Thermopylae and Salamis, the Persian leader has remained legendary, and the war was a veritable clash of civilizations. Had the Persians triumphed, the Golden Age of Athens would have been snuffed out, and Greece would never have formed the backbone of Roman and Western culture. Simply put, the West as it is today might never have existed.

Not surprisingly, the majority of surviving sources regarding Xerxes are the product of Greek writers, so it was inevitable that the Persian king has been depicted in unflattering terms for thousands of years. The details of his invasion of Greece cast him as the villain in the dramatic Greek retelling of the tragic 300 Spartans holding the pass at Thermopylae, and focus on the loss at Salamis that solidified his reputation as a failure despite another 15 years of successful rule after withdrawing from the Greek mainland. Although Herodotus’s Histories offer a less biased account than some later sources, he still depicted Xerxes as a figure of tragic failings, listening too often to the wrong councilors and eventually collapsing on the weight of his own hubris. This classic appearance as a tragic hero figure gives some pause for doubt, as the literary stereotype is almost too perfect and suggests a lack of depth and nuance that characterizes all accurate investigations of historical individuals.

These early images were only exacerbated by Alexander the Great and his biographers, who maintained a fiery hatred toward Xerxes for his burning of Athens. They targeted many of his building projects after their capture of Persepolis, and they pushed an even bleaker picture of the king, one of an idle, indolent, cowardly, and corrupt ruler. The continuation of this can be traced throughout the passing centuries - Plato considered Xerxes to be a poor reflection of a great father, and another contemporary, Lysias, wrote in his Funeral Oration how Xerxes “had held Greece in contempt, but had been deceived in his hopes, who was dishonored by the event, galled by the disaster, and angered against its authors, and who was unused to ill-hap and unacquainted with true men.”

Sir Walter Raleigh wrote a History of the World in which, despite including an anecdote in which Alexander considered re-erecting a statue of Xerxes due to the king’s virtues, he went on to describe Xerxes as impious, brutal, wicked, foolish, cowardly, and merciless. Author Henry Rawlinson, writing in 1867, claimed that Xerxes’s character was far inferior to his more admirable predecessors, while David Stronach asserted in 1978 that Xerxes was significantly less intelligent than his father had been.

As usual, the truth lies far more towards the middle, even as Xerxes’s frequent portrayal as the villain in the story of a fierce, brave defense of Greece against overwhelming odds has made him a less than popular subject for biographers and historical investigations. However, a few individuals have undertaken to explore the true complexities of his character, and through these works and a few ancient sources, most particularly Herodotus, a more accurate picture can be derived, even if the bias of Greek accounts still colors the information. In reality, very little objective information exists as to the personality and character of the king, so the truth must be estimated through a careful interpretation of his deeds.
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Product: Cyrus the Great: A Life from Beginning to End
Description: Discover the remarkable life of Cyrus the Great...

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Cyrus II of Persia was one of the greatest leaders that the world had ever known; he was the one in whose footsteps other empire builders would follow. From Alexander the Great to countless Roman emperors and Ottoman sultans—it was the mighty shoes of Cyrus that they all attempted to fill.

More than merely a successful conqueror, Cyrus the Great is known just as much for being a great liberator as he is known for his conquests. He was even credited in the Bible as the one who freed the Jews from their long-held Babylonian exile. By the time of his death, Cyrus controlled more land and people than anyone before him. Under his dominion were countless principalities, nationalities, ethnicities, and religions of all kinds. In contrast to many other powerful rulers, Cyrus did not seek to oppress his subjects or interfere with their way of life, religions, or local customs. It is for this reason that, as great as his temporal conquests may have been, the benevolence of Cyrus the Great’s leadership stands as his greatest attribute of all.
The life of Cyrus the Great remains as an unparalleled testament in the annals of history.

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Early Life and Legend
The Persian Empire is Born
Love and Marriage
Cyrus’ Last Stand
Aftermath and Succession
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Product: Hadassah, Queen Esther of Persia
Description: One of the great heroines of the Old Testament, Hadassah was a beautiful, graceful young woman who put her faith in God and her guardian, her cousin Mordecai.
She dreams of marrying Shamir, a tall, handsome, studious young man who is the rabbi’s son. Her heart beats faster when she hears the sound of his deep voice as he reads the Torah. And she hopes that he will visit Mordecai soon to present a betrothal request.
Then, an upheaval in King Xerxes’s palace changes everything. Queen Vashti has been banished and an edict goes out for all qualified young virgins throughout the empire to be taken to the palace as he searches for a new queen.
Fear strikes in the hearts of many, including Mordecai, as he realizes Hadassah will be taken. To hide her identity as a Jew, he tells her to go by the name of Esther. Since he works as a record-keeper at the king’s gates, he can keep tabs on how she is doing.
Hadassah: Queen Esther of Persia imagines what life was like for the woman who saved her people—and perhaps found love in the process.
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Product: Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception Book 1)
Description: Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks' historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army – has inspired a series of literary responses to Xerxes in which he is variously portrayed as the archetypal destructive and enslaving aggressor, as the epitome of arrogance and impiety, or as a figure synonymous with the exoticism and luxury of the Persian court.
Imagining Xerxes is a transhistorical analysis that explores the richness and variety of Xerxes' afterlives within the ancient literary tradition. It examines the earliest representations of the king, in Aeschylus' tragic play Persians and Herodotus' historiographical account of the Persian Wars, before tracing the ways in which the image of Xerxes was revisited and adapted in later Greek and Latin texts. The author also looks beyond the Hellenocentric viewpoint to consider the construction of Xerxes' image in the Persian epigraphic record and the alternative perspectives on the king found in the Jewish written tradition.
Analysing these diverse representations of Xerxes, this title explores the reception of a key figure in the ancient world and the reinvention of his image in a remarkable array of cultural and historical contexts.
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Product: Xerxes the God King [Explicit]
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Product: The Achaemenid Persian Empire’s Most Famous Kings: The Lives and Reigns of Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, and Xerxes I
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Product: Cyrus the Great: The Life and Legacy of the King Who Founded the Achaemenid Persian Empire
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Product: King Xerxes I: The Life and Legacy of the Achaemenid Persian Empire’s Most Notorious Ruler
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Product: Hadassah: One Night With The King
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Product: Leonidas, And The Passage Of The Dardanelles By Xerxes
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Product: Xerxes: A Persian Life
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Product: One Night with the King
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