Festival of Lights — Melissa Glisan

It's 167 BCE and the Jewish faith has been outlawed in Jerusalem by the Hellenic overlords the Seleucids. Hoping to protect his aspiring Rabbi son, Jacob, Moshe makes a most unusual purchase at the slave market - a female Scythian warrior. Saka Ishkuzi has known nothing but deprivation, battle and harsh extremes of ice mountains and sand dunes.

She was forged into the perfect weapon: women were not seen as threats by the Seleucids. But her biggest battle wouldn't be protecting Jacob's life but her heart from his gentle touch.

Return in time to the first Hanukkah to witness miracles of faith and love.