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Defiant Throne is the story of Queen Zenia, who dares to challenge the king’s decree. The story is a narrative through the eyes of the prophet Daniel, captured during the Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem. Zenia was a royal prince, King Nebuchadnezzar’s great-granddaughter, and King Belshazzar’s daughter. She was captured and taken to the Susa Palace and placed in a harem after her father’s death, and her country was captured by Darius the Great. In the harem, by accident of her beauty and intellect, she rose to the power of one of the most remarkable powers in the world, the Achaemenid Empire. Quietly, she seeks ways to avenge her father’s death and restore the throne of Babylon.    

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The story takes a turn after Babylon and  the Temple of Marduk was destroyed, but the  Zenia is reported missing. The King convinced it was the Helenians, launches  a long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek city-states reaching its high point with extraordinary events unfolding in the Greco-Persian wars in search of Queen Zenia.