This blog post was originally posted on November 9, 2022. The version you see now has been updated and revised since then, but the content remains the same.

Mystery, intrigue, tragedy, and redemption — The Hidden Prince is another sweeping adventure in the Old Testament world of Daniel from Tessa Afshar!

Keren and Jared are captives—to each other, to their situations, and to their hearts—but Tessa Afshar’s beautiful writing takes them on a transformative journey that yet again surprised me in more ways than one. As always, the characters are more than well-rounded. The plot is everything I could ever want it to be, from the biggest twists and turns, and all the way down to the tiniest details in the narrative.

You would think that by now I would have come to expect the kinds of plot twists, high-stakes exchanges, and life-changing redemptive tales Afshar pens, but even when I think I know what to expect, I am still caught off guard by the beauty of it all. That is what makes Tessa Afshar’s writing and The Hidden Prince so special!

When I start to feel like things can’t get worse for the characters in the story, they do, and when I begin to worry that there’s no possible space for a happy ending, there is. That’s the power of God, isn’t it? Even though the story of Keren and Jared is fictional, the promises of God through His son and our savior Jesus Christ are as real as ever, and poignantly and powerfully portrayed in this novel. From the moment I opened the book and began to read, I lost myself in the story, and by the end, I found even more reminders to hold on to the hope of God’s promises, stand firm in the belief of His faithfulness, and trust that He always has a plan.

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*I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher. All opinions are my own.