The Serpent and the Staff

In ancient Ugarit, Syria, 1450 BCE, eighteen-year-old Leah faces a precarious fate as the eldest daughter of a wealthy winemaker. Refusing to marry the cruel shipbuilder Jotham, who blackmails her family due to his illness, Leah embarks on a desperate quest for a cure to save her family from ruin. As she navigates this perilous journey, she develops a forbidden attraction to Daveed, a handsome scribe with ambitions of reviving a prestigious brotherhood that may hold the key to both Leah's and her family's future. Amidst growing tensions and Jotham's sinister plots, Leah must forge her own destiny.