Bitter for Sweet

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. carries on the tradition of intense, lyrical, and deeply moving historical fiction started in the award‑winning and . By capturing the era and its people with his characteristic raw intimacy and plainsong prose style, Daryl Potter brings this story of these women-and a fateful Roman invitation-vividly to life.